jehovahs witnesses say they dont shun anymore?

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[oldschoolman]

There's no need to reconcile with your abusers if their unwilling to admit their faults.

[rbtmdl]

The fact that she wouldn't talk to you for years, but will now because her church will let her again, says that she loves her church more than her son.

[troisquarts]

The scars never leave. Certain facial expressions from certain family members still bring up pain and get my defences up. I suspect my family thinks everything is fine now, it never will be. Trauma is deeply imprinted.

[ohhimark]

It enrages me to no end that they're allowed to cart camp in front of the community college when they're so against higher education

[gramplolo]

This is psychological abuse, that poor kid, a 9 year old, forced to shun her own sister to avoid getting shunned herself, absolutely disgusting.

[robertgrey]

They don't SHUN any more ??


They don't shun any less either !!

How many families have been broken apart with this barbaric practice ??


How many suicides been committed through being thrown out of house and home and SHUNNED ??

[wisemoon]

Ditto, fuck trying to pretend you didn't abuse and abandon all my life, my mom has been trying to make contact 🤮

[rockebynametowndowell]

I really feel your anger. I've been disfellowshipped since 2017. I attended a further 2.5 years without being reinstated. My experiences since a separation in 2015 were horrendous. I stopped going in 2020 and once they knew I'd given up they were begging me to reapply. No way.

[winterflame]

No I don’t think I would speak with someone again who had shunned me. It says a lot about them and their heart.

[LiKoumou]

Even if the Watchtower stops the shunning policy, I would never going back to this toxic environment...ever!

[lukewarmninja]

If you haven't talked for years, you're functionally strangers. Even if it was something like moving away and losing contact, you can't just pick up where you left off. If anything, someone who shunned you should work on rebuilding that trust before you're willing to consider them a friend again.

[LeeTheKnight]

Their self-righteous attitude makes me loathe them.

[gaillarsen]

I think they allow you to say hello if they are at a meeting, I personally want nothing to do with any of them.

[britofamilyfun]

Same crap with me, i left the Cult 30 years ago and my mom will speak to my older brother that is disfellowshipped because they claim he had mentally challenged. It’s double standards with these people, they will cheat on their taxes but not speak to you because you do not agree with the Cult.

[jtopdawg]

I feel exactly what you saying and coming from. I’m the same with my daddy which I will never call him my father ever again. I hadn’t spoken to him in 30 years and he call me out of the blue to invite me to the memorial after they told him he could speak to me to invite me to a meeting. I wish I might. It’s nothing that would ever make me come back to the hall! He’s so indoctrinated into that false religion that it’s sickening. The way he has treated me and my children is inexcusable and unforgivable.

[Bugg..._o]

Owen don't do it. That will only lead to pain. Keep it a clean break. Do not let her back into your life.

[LeroyMustang]

Got in front of some Jehovah’s Witnesses coming up to a coffee shop. For some reason I picked them out from a mile away.

I had family who had not seen their mother for years because they were disfellowshipped.

I immediately grilled the lead missionary, asking if they had children, she said she had three, and I asked if they would speak to them if they were disfellowshipped, they said “That would be their choice.”
I said “that’s horrible”

You could see the immediate shame in her face. They left immediately.

I hope confrontations like that helped bring change/reform.

[NoYanniLover]

There needs to be a class action law suit brought against this organization based on "crimes against humanity" for all the hurt and pain they've caused people and families for decades!

[Eric_]

Saying "hello" is absolutely insignificant and doesn't count as a change because they have ALWAYS done that. While DFd in the past I've had people come up and have full-blown conversations with me right in the KH. Granted, it was a funeral, but doesn't matter. Even that event aside, I've had plenty of people greet me, smile, etc just in public. They didn't hang out, but the "you can say hello now" thing is about 30 years late. They've always done it. On top of that, since the recent announcement, I've not heard from a single family member. NO, I would never be familiar with them again even if their rules changed. Too much damage for too long. THEY are dead to ME.

[queen_of_flatulence]

I think now the rules are that shunning is still in place (sort of) there are specific rules for talking to disfellowshiped people. You can say "hi" and invite them to the meeting but you can't have a real conversation with them