Can anyone tell me how I explain to my 94 yr old mother who is experiencing mild dementia that I am not the devil in disguise?
I left jws some time ago, was married to an elder & my research showed me many things that did not sit well with me so I guess I am an apostate. But when my mother had a slight stroke a couple of years ago - I made a promise to care for her. This entailed leaving everything in United Kingdom, lovely flat, good job & mostly my lovely family of children & grandchildren & last but not least had to have my older cat put to sleep to travel to Australia.
I now live in one bed unit, sleeping in lounge & am in firing line 24/7 with someone who treats me like a slave at best & a naughty child at worst. But it's my choice to care for her.
So how will she react to this talk and the guilt of having me in her home?? Many times she has asked elders to visit her as hardly anyone ever does even though they give talks about it all the time. When I was in UK we spoke on telephone regularly & she was upset that no one came around. Did anyone ever consider how this may affect the lonely elderly ones who have family who do so much for them but are not jws??
i do not sup at table of demons neither do I want to make followers just live my life quietly doing the best I can, no labels are needed for people or bullying techniques or name calling which is so very immature but this talk will cause many families problems in my humble opinion.