My best friend is well acquainted with JW's. She has known me since both of our kids were in our bellies. She was 18, I was 25. Our kids were born and raised up together as brother and sister. Back in the day when I was still sympathetic with the JW's, we both studied and we both had a lot of questions. We didn't keep up with it, but it has always continued to play a part in our holiday celebrations as she was always keenly aware that MY family wouldn't attend our celebrations (she was like a sister tome) because they were Witnesses... She was well aware of my JW family members and was always very respectful of their beliefs. She was like a sister to me and I have loved her as such since 17 years ago.
About seven weeks ago we decided that we wanted to go to the Texas Rennaissance Festival. We planned for many weeks about the campsite, who was gonna bring what, and all that stuff. She called up at the last minute and said she was going to bring C. I said who is "C" and she said that she was someone she met offa the Internet.. I was kinda flummoxed cuz it was someone we didn't know, and we weren't sure. What else could we say? She ended up bringing "C" and we had a real good time! He seemed over-involved with her for their first date, but I chocked it up to being a single Dad. We lit a fire in front of our campsite.. and put up the tents. He was a really friendly, and nice, guy. I liked him alot. We got to talking, as people do around campfires, and when my friend was out in the woods relieving herself, he revealed to me that he was an X-witness. He said he didn't want me to tell her that I knew that, because he wanted to tell her that for himself. He said that he had been an elder in a congregation, and he knew my family. I said "How do you know my family?" Come to find out.. his X wife had dated my brother when she was a teenager.. and she was the one that, involved with my brother, was reproved. Then I found out that she had been married three or four times, had a buncha kids.. and was the person that my brother had dated this last spring cuz she was trying to get him to marry her. My brother is 40 years old, and still single, and he took her and her four kids to the rodeo.. and decided he didn't wanna get involved with a sister with four kids.
So... my friend comes back from the bathroom.. and I just blurt out "wow .. your boyfriend was a former JW." Then they went in to the tent for him to explain it to her. I thougt it was REALLY STUPID cuz she thinks JW's are just nuts... And then everything was okay. What was really wierd is how it fit in all with our prior pathology with my friend. BOTH our brothers died at the same age of the same thing, our oldest uncles BOTH had AIDS, we BOTH married a guy named Joe on October 5, 1985 (didnt know each other) and got divorced the same day. Wierd...
I DIDNT like how he was so possessive of her at the park the next day.. it bugged me. I told her, but she didn't listen. She was ust ENAMORED of him. I also found out that he was a real suck up. He just was like totally IN to her. Everything she said or did.. he was right on it.
He said that he was a "event expert" for events like fireworks, music, and lighting. That was okay. Then it kind of shocked me when he said that he was closing down his business and didn't have much work. I was kinda scared for my friend.
Guess what? In five weeks.. he was living with her. She told me that he was living with her and she didn't want ME to let on that I knew about that. He told her that he didnt want people talkin about it, so that they shouldn't talk about it. I thnk I am reaching the end of my posting stuff.. so I'll continue it again...