That was a great opportunity to count his blessings and get his shit in order, including helping his in-laws financially and contributing to a stable home life
Even JWs deserve their own privacy and to worship their God in peace. Not only were they housing a vocal apostate, he was operating a lucrative antiJW business out of their home! Imagine that… their ideals and beliefs, however misguided, were completely contradicted and ridiculed by their son-in-law whose avowed mission was to burn their religion to the ground. It’s like me moving into my granny’s home - the same woman who thinks I am demonised because I used to be into tarot cards.
Here’s the rub - Lloyd stated several times that the in-laws were dependent upon him. That’s bad enough, but did they know that Lloyd was largely funded by apostate exJWs who gave their money to him so he could take down their religion? Imagine this money trail - Joe Apostate from Kansas City pledges money to Lloyd Evans through Patreon and part of this goes to Dijana’s mother’s new dress to wear to the Kingdom Hall? Were the in-laws getting money from filtered down through Dijana from apostate donations - and somehow they ended up in the Worldwide Kingdom Hall fund? Wouldn’t that be the shit.
This is why Apostasy-for-hire is such a bad fucking idea.
Having gotten a new lease on life, he built a brand that provided him with more money than he should have known what to do with.
I don’t believe for a second that he ever thought of allowing his family an equal share in his gains. He made a killing off the earthquake relief fund that even a Scientology blogger wrote an article about - complete with a link to Jabba the Hutt’s PayPal. Lloyd even stated that what they had received was more than enough to purchase a home and had to ease off the request for donations. Of course it was largely funded off the wife and two kids - them playing a large part in the emotional blackmail of it all. But the indication was that they had enough.
Lloyd, never one to keep quiet about his plans, was immediately tweeting about buying a home in Istria and how he didn’t want his girls to grow up in a dump like Sisak. (Spoiler alert - they still are four years and many donations later)
But they never bought the home in Istria. Indeed in his second letter (we have to start quoting this as 2 Lloyd - New Testament style) he dangled the carrot of resuming the search for the home in Istria. Which means at some point they stopped looking- yet he had the money for it.
Why? It didn’t serve his immediate purpose to throw all his chips into that pot, especially when living a double life. I believe that him buying his own place in Zagreb was part of his open relationship plan. It was in his interest to keep her impoverished and having no future except through him.
This is why he was so arrogant about the entire thing. He held the purse strings and she was at his mercy.