Just curious, how many of you have to hide the fact that you post here from family? I'm especially thinking of those with spouses who are in, while they themselves either never were, faded, DFed/DAed, etc but if you are a child hiding it from parents, that applies too. If you are posting secretly, how secretive do you have to be? Going to the library to do so? While the spouse/parent is at meetings? From work? At first I was posting here secretly, but gradually was able to reveal it to my wife. I even had hopes at one point that she would join herself, but that seems to be a forlorn hope. She says she doesn't like "hater sites" where everything is all negativity.
She was never baptized, never officially a JW, just studied with them and started going to meetings, but I eventually managed to show her how bizarre some of the doctrines of the JWs are, and she no longer does so now. (Thanks to many here who helped me with that, particularly jgnat and Check_Your_Premises.) She is still kind and friendly to the ones who stop by here on occasion (guess they have her down as a return visit or something?) to give her new booklets, but is no longer interested in them. I now post here openly, sometimes she will even sit in the room with me while I'm reading and typing, and ask me some questions.
I think one of the most eye-opening things for her was when she kept looking at the screen one day, and finally being able to stand her curiousity no longer, asked me "Are these people really the ages that show up by their names, or what? There's no way that one person is x years old" (some people have their age on the board set to close to 100, or less than 10; in those cases I assume it's to honor their "birth out of the truth"). So I told her how families were split because of shunning, and how some people here had to hide themselves to keep from being 'outed', and were probably just putting random fake ages as part of their cover. I could see by the look on her face that it really hit home.