I
don't have any immediate family that are JW's. However, My brother was married (17 years) to a women who was raised in the JW's. Being married to him, she ran to the organization for salvation (LOL) and got baptized. Nor she or her family have spoken to me in over twelve years. They have two kids one is in college, I haven't seen him since he was a pre-teen, and the last time I saw my niece, she was still in diapers.
My mother in-law to whom we lived with when we first got married, didn't seem all that surprised when we began telling her of our findings, (mind you this was before the internet) She was very promient within the French Congregations of JW's, having built a Kingdom Hall in Haiti, and been on verious dramas on conventions.
Her closes friends were Tom and Gloria Cabeen. Tom served as an elder in the French congregation. For those who don't know Tom, se Franz's books, he is also one of the founders of BRCI.
One evening my wife decided to sit down and have a candid talk with her moms about what we were planning to do. For about a year we were alreading fellowshipping with a small group of Bible Students in the Jersey City area.
Needles to say she went on a rampage, and after all was said and done, she threw us out of the house. She told us that as long as we lived in her house Jehovah's spirit would not flow. So she demanded that we leave, she even told us that she didn't want us living in the area, because she "didn't want to smell our apostate stench." She we moved far away. Her ONLY relatives in the area.
Of course, it took some years, some seven years for her to come around, why seven years? Because that was the time her grand daughter was born, amazing what grand children can do.
Meanwhile, she was living in a beautiful house that was all paid for, and the JW's managed to suck her dry, she sold the house, moved to a scum of the earth area, which was sold to her by a JW, it's torture when we go to visit her.
And so she draws closer to the JW's with every single moment, despiet the fact taht we have tried to help her, my wife told her not to sell the house, when seh saw the new house, she told her not to buy it, but did she listen? Noooo! She listened to those whom she believed had her best interest at heart, the JWs and they betrayed her.
Oh well, some live and learn, others repeat the same mistakes. This was our situation when telling those close to us what we discovered.
Mind you, our families and closes friends have disfellowshipped us, and yet neither the Watchtower nor the congregation have talen action against us.
Everyone is different, you know your moms better than anyone on this board, only you know how she may react.
But I'd rather tell the truth then live a lie, unless of course the truth kills her.
RR
