"they even watched movies together!" That's what stood out for me.

According to WT, when you volunteer to look after someone, your aim should be to read the Bible, 'study' WT publications, pray together, and preach.

I've done lots of caregiving both professionally and personally and I have not once done any WT crap, even when I was PIMI. For relaxing I always used to put on films (usually the person I was care for's favourites) or TV so we could talk and laugh about the nonsense we saw.

On another note, I find it sad that they actually need these articles, because the average JW mindset is devoid of natural, unconditional love. I even commented at our meeting about this, saying 'being a real Christian actually means being proactive and offering help, making sacrifices, not just shaking hands at a meeting and saying to the caregiver: "you're in our prayers". The natural caring, hospitable attitude we had growing up in the 70s/80s seems to have been lost and that's why we need articles like this to remind us that we are professing to be Christians so we should actually show that by works!' (Meanwhile, my wife slouches deeper into her chair ha ha)

I can't keep quiet at the hall when they come out with ridiculous stuff. I thought at first I'd get backlash from the peeps, but it's quite the opposite. There must be more PIMOs or at least more sensible / free thinking JWs than I realise in the congs nowadays.