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My mother in law and her entire family is Jehovah Witness. My husband entered the Catholic Church 3 years after dating. There have been a bunch family issues on their side of the family. My husbands step dad has been a very disrespectful, neglectful, negative man. There have been many times, me being around the family for 4 years, that I have wanted to step in and more or less, “put him in his place”. However, I never did because my husband never allowed it because he knew it would only bring more strife to his mom. This man has left her multiple times to go live somewhere else, while the kids were younger, and now with them grown up. He’s very sarcastic to her and others. He’s very unreliable and will just abandon her and leave her will the bills and responsibilities when she’s been through surgery and been on unemployment. And then come back a few months later like nothings happened. They will go through constant episodes of not talking to each other, being childish and tormenting her with the hateful silence. I honestly can’t take anymore of her dealing with this, as well as the family dealing with it. But she is a strong Jehovah witness, and believes that the man is over her, and that divorce is no option, and that she’s still to her vows. This is a great attitude in itself and shows much respect and loyalty to God. But I know that there marriage isn’t “real” it was only done in the courthouse, I don’t believe either one has been baptized, but if so it would be a JW baptism which is not valid anyway. I just want tell her she can leave him, but she won’t understand because she believes that her marriage is real and unbreakable.
I really just need help on how to deal with this, what I should say and do, prayers that could aid in her conversion, and anything else. Thank you and God bless, any prayers would be amazing, her name is Neva Glenn.
 
Please be careful about declaring that someone’s marriage is “not real”.
also, try not to post a person’s name on the internet She may not appreciate it. These things stay out there online forever.

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My mother in law and her entire family is Jehovah Witness. My husband entered the Catholic Church 3 years after dating. There have been a bunch family issues on their side of the family. My husbands step dad has been a very disrespectful, neglectful, negative man. There have been many times, me being around the family for 4 years, that I have wanted to step in and more or less, “put him in his place”. However, I never did because my husband never allowed it because he knew it would only bring more strife to his mom. This man has left her multiple times to go live somewhere else, while the kids were younger, and now with them grown up. He’s very sarcastic to her and others. He’s very unreliable and will just abandon her and leave her will the bills and responsibilities when she’s been through surgery and been on unemployment. And then come back a few months later like nothings happened. They will go through constant episodes of not talking to each other, being childish and tormenting her with the hateful silence. I honestly can’t take anymore of her dealing with this, as well as the family dealing with it. But she is a strong Jehovah witness, and believes that the man is over her, and that divorce is no option, and that she’s still to her vows. This is a great attitude in itself and shows much respect and loyalty to God. But I know that there marriage isn’t “real” it was only done in the courthouse, I don’t believe either one has been baptized, but if so it would be a JW baptism which is not valid anyway. I just want tell her she can leave him, but she won’t understand because she believes that her marriage is real and unbreakable.
I really just need help on how to deal with this, what I should say and do, prayers that could aid in her conversion, and anything else. Thank you and God bless, any prayers would be amazing, her name is Neva Glenn.
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You need to tell your husband that either he aqueous to a smack down on your FIL or you will not be going around the in-laws anymore. You can show your FIL that his son does not hold the same sway over his spouse that he does on his. I don’t know about your husband’s status, but you don’t sound like a co-dependant, good for you!
 
Ah, spell check, thank you! You seriously didn’t know which I meant?

Anyway, I wasn’t referring to the marriage relationship of the OP’s FIL & MIL. The OP states that her FIL is a disrespectful man. I would assume he could be put in his place regarding some issue that has nothing to do with the MIL. That’s what I meant. I was not advocating getting in between a marital relationship. Maybe I should have been clearer about that.
 
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