Before I start I respect everyone's religion! This is in no way trying to tell you it's wrong. I'm trying to share my experience with the specific group.
I wouldn't say everyone in my family is a witness, some of them are and some of them arent. My nana is witness, she's the one who use to take us to the kingdom hall, read the bible to us and pray for us. When I was around ten or eleven I started to question god. I started thinking that if he was real he would help us, he would save people. But then I realized how selfish he was. I started to doubt if god was real, and that my nana was dragging us along to nothing.
As a forced witness I couldnt do anything; I couldnt celebrate my birthday, I couldnt do any holiday things. I couldn't grieve the death of my dad without them telling me he was going to be in paradise.
You'd think it would give me a sense of security and happiness but as I kept thinking about it I realized it was a tactic to getting me to stay. Giving me this 'goal' to look for.
At first I didnt think that was it and that maybe they wanted me and my sisters to feel happy until my younger sister started to also doubt them, she told the woman she was studying with how she felt and she looked at her and said "fine, write a letter and I'll give it to your dad in paradise when he wonders why you're not there."
It was the last straw for me and my sister both. But for our other two younger sisters, they still have to study with her. I always feel bad cause they always say they dont want to go. She always says they are giving her attitude and are being ruthless and rude but they're so different at home. We try to keep them home but she gets in this 'possessive mode'. She isnt the parent but I think sometimes she forgets that.
Sometimes I wish she would see from our shoes, how we feel, how it effects us. But shes so blind in what she believes is the truth that it causes her to act out.
I only wanted to come here to write this because I recently came across this video of this guy who explains that his mom is in the truth but he isnt cause it's such a cult like group.