A young couple we were very close to, we both got baptized at the same assembly.
I knew the young man well, we went through grade school and high school together.
He served in the military also, he married before shipping out to Viet Nam.
I had heard of rumors about his wife while he was overseas. This guy was a virgin when he got
married, raised in a strict religious family.
Two years of marriage they were baptized as JW. The rumors were our friend and his wife.
OK, two years passed(4 years as JW's) and our friend came to town and dropped by to see him (he the JW
had also heard the rumors). Well he decided to squash the rumors and told his friend, my wife
told me what happen while I was overseas. Well he got an ear full and it just destroyed, he told
our friend to leave and never return and he called his wife (she wasn't home) and the elders.
She and the elders arrived around the same time. He told the elders he want a divorce, the wife
told him she was sorry.
The elder told him, this happen before you became a JW and must try to forgive but you don't
have grounds for a divorce, it's been over 4-5 years since this happen.
I saw the brother( not a JW) a few years back they divorced after 15 years, he told me he could not get over it, (adultery).
But he remarried and is very happy.
But the stupid elder, "this happen before you became a JW", as if adultery is fine if you are not a JW.