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<p>[QUOTE="Xprimentyl, post: 3816, member: 20"]</p><p>My girlfriend was raised JW, but stopped practicing at around 19 years of age when she left home. It was hard for her because her mother converted the family (her, her older sister and her younger brother and sister) when they were between the ages of 6 and 13, so they have vivid memories of birthday parties, holidays and whatnot that one day just suddenly stopped. Today, all of her children are great people, but none of them (now aged 38 through 45) are practicing witnesses, and she’s passive-aggressively very bitter about it, like THEY did something wrong. In turn, her kids are aggressive-passively very bitter towards her. It’s very sad. As adults, they still seek the approval of “mom,” but refuse to be crushed under the thumb of her expectations. It’s a silly charade; she doesn’t celebrate birthdays, but will call on her children’s birthdays “just because I was thinking about you.” Christmas decorations (tree and all) had to be all but ripped down in a flurry when we found her mother was in town and she had to explain to her 13-year-old son (who was raised Christian) why Christmas evaporated, because “nana wouldn’t like [everything].” So I guess my question is why the staunch aversion to holidays? Can one not celebrate ANYTHING except God? How does a 5-year-old happily eating birthday cake or opening a Christmas gift at all offend Jehovah? And I hope my question doesn’t offend you, but being on “this” side of a very tense situation for over two years now, I am admittedly biased.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Xprimentyl, post: 3816, member: 20"] My girlfriend was raised JW, but stopped practicing at around 19 years of age when she left home. It was hard for her because her mother converted the family (her, her older sister and her younger brother and sister) when they were between the ages of 6 and 13, so they have vivid memories of birthday parties, holidays and whatnot that one day just suddenly stopped. Today, all of her children are great people, but none of them (now aged 38 through 45) are practicing witnesses, and she’s passive-aggressively very bitter about it, like THEY did something wrong. In turn, her kids are aggressive-passively very bitter towards her. It’s very sad. As adults, they still seek the approval of “mom,” but refuse to be crushed under the thumb of her expectations. It’s a silly charade; she doesn’t celebrate birthdays, but will call on her children’s birthdays “just because I was thinking about you.” Christmas decorations (tree and all) had to be all but ripped down in a flurry when we found her mother was in town and she had to explain to her 13-year-old son (who was raised Christian) why Christmas evaporated, because “nana wouldn’t like [everything].” So I guess my question is why the staunch aversion to holidays? Can one not celebrate ANYTHING except God? How does a 5-year-old happily eating birthday cake or opening a Christmas gift at all offend Jehovah? And I hope my question doesn’t offend you, but being on “this” side of a very tense situation for over two years now, I am admittedly biased. [/QUOTE]
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