Facing that you may be mistaken, losing that aspect of one's identity, coming into conflict with friends and family who still hold the faith..... My mother was an Anglican along with her siblings. My mother had brothers one of who lost his wife when their children were young and in a few aspects became a replacement mother for their children. When my mother heard that one of these children was about to marry a Catholic she became quite divisive in insisting that the couple embrace Anglicanism rather than Catholicism. It took me a while to realise why my mother who seemed to be a tolerant person for her generation and location seemed to behave in an intolerant way. My mother's father was born in Northern Ireland and would have been subject to the intolerant propaganda between Catholics and Protestants in that country and some of this was bound to have rubbed off on him and then on my mother. My mother, by this stage the de facto matriarch of the family put a great deal of pressure on the couple to reject the Catholic option.
--- Of course, my mother didn't have quite the same persuading tools that are available to JWs to "influence" the religious choices of family members.
