Does anyone have congregational experience of an aftermath such as the above?
I once fell deeply in love with a JW (and vice versa) and the week before I was due to leave work some dubs came around to my home on my offday to convert me. however, I refused to go since we had a serious fallout prior to them turning up.
A few months later I then entered the congregation to try to salvage the relationship, and went to two meetings, but I didn't declare to other JW's there that it was for an emotional need that I had turned up with the hope of being with her. She wasn't there on both occasions so I made a telephone call to declare the 'good news' to her. Her mother answered, but before she had the chance to tell her daughter that I was converted she made it vehemently plain that she didn't want to speak to me and that she wanted rid. Out of shock I instantly put the phone down and never went to another meeting. The point is this incident caused me to leave for good.
So my question is this; does anything happen to a JW if they cause an unbaptised convert to leave? What would the elders have done to her (if they were required to do anything at all)?
Many years have passed since this incident and ealier in the year I employed someone to find out if she was willing to make contact with me. I was told that she was. I have since been sending letters to her via this third party and since my first approach I have a dub knocking on doors on my village. I know alot more about the Watchtower now and I am never going back, but I am really concerned for her. Which is more likely, that she is acting out of genuine compassion/remorse or because she has been heavily repremanded in the past?
Any advice and inside experience greatly welcome (especially from former elders). SEATROUT.