to any of these, what is your motivation?
What efforts? For me personally, I left. That's it. That's all I wanted to do. JWs can go about their business. I don't care what anyone believes.
However, my response isn't met with the same feelings. My mom feels it is necessary to 'bring me back to the fold' and to wash my mind of 'apostate beliefs'. When she asks me questions, I feel obligated to respond. After all, I should be able to express myself without fear of reproof. That's when the shit storm starts, and that's why I'm so personally involved. I don't want to be, but as that famous Godfather III line goes, "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in".
At the end of the day, my efforts will be futile, as my mother is moving away because she can't stand to live with her dissident son. So, why bother? I don't know... there have been moments I made her think. I guess it gives me some hope, but I've resigned myself to the reality. She will leave, I will move on.
Oh, and I don't fully lay the blame on the religion; the blame is partially on her upbringing and life circumstances and her needy personality. I really pity that it had to come to this, but if she's die-hard committed to her relgion, I honestly don't want to keep her. She can go and do her thing, and I am free to do mine.