We raised our all three of our sons in the religion .All were baptised . When we left the two oldest were out living on their own at 21 and 24 ,the youngest was 18 still living at home . The youngest has a deep hatred for the JWs ....it worries me he is so angery with all of them.
Our middle son was the most active spiritually .In fact my JW brother told me when I stopped going to meetings that I should know that son would never leave 'the truth'.......He slowly faded from meetings two yrs ago ,did alot of reading of Dawkins ,and now is pretty much an Atheist. He doesn't seem to resent the Witnesses other than their shallow mindedness and unwillingness to think for themselves . His former friends have tried to use the fact they all use to look up to him as a guilt trip for leaving .His favorite saying is "Witnesses only taught us what to think not HOW to think "
The oldest just blames being lazy and moving a couple of times as his inactivity . He doesn't have any desire to get involved with any religion .He never says anything bad about JWs ,but he doesn't seem to be happy with the judgemental attitude his former friends have towards him and his wife just because they no longer attend meetings . His wifes family has told her she is bad association for them unless she returns to meetings ....She is a strong willed person and I know she can see they are using emotional blackmail ....and she will have none of that .
I do expect there will come a time when they might be resentful of us for not being smart enough to see the real truth alot sooner , but so far they have been understanding.They realize we did only what we could at the time with what we knew .