Yes....that does make since.
I remember before baptism being asked if I had any affiliation with the church of my youth. I t hought the question odd, but then the elders I was studying with started talking about me writing a letter denouncing membership. I never did write a letter. Through the whold of that process I was wondering what the big fuss was about.
The WT has a sly way of isolating you from everyone that will possibly clue you iin that they are a cult. They are very adept at isolating you from even your own conscious in favor of following every word they say as if it was from god himself.