What does restrict the relationship mean? And why would you restrict your relationship with a family member because they’ve had sex out of wedlock? How is that supposed to help? The Bible also says that everyone shall carry their own cross. But yet the elders serve as judges literally on what’s called a judicial panel doling out sentences based on their subjective opinion. You are the problem with JWs, people inside who minimize it’s cult practices so they can feel the comfort of community, not realizing that if they slip up, they’ll get it too. Fucking hate Jehovah’s Witnesses. There is no other religion as cocky in their belief to call it the ‘truth’. Please, keep believing the world is 6000 years old. Fucking quacks.