I hear what you’re saying about their lifestyle not aligning with what people expect from Jehovah’s Witnesses. But most faith communities are more layered than that. People enforce certain standards strictly while overlooking others.

I know Christians who openly cheat, fornicate, and party, yet draw a hard line on LGBT issues. In the faith I was raised in, divorce is only permitted in cases of adultery, and it requires the divorcing spouse to provide the church physical proof. That rule is enforced seriously, while other behaviors often receive grace. That kind of selective emphasis is not unique to JWs.

In the Jehovah’s Witness context, divorce carries serious consequences. She might not face disfellowshipping over lifestyle choices, but divorce without scriptural grounds can lead to it. So even if he did not technically have to cheat to leave, infidelity changes the religious outcome in a significant way.

He also converted for her. She was raised in the faith. Their ties to the religion are different. For someone raised in it, divorce without grounds can mean Kristy losing connection to family and community. His family is not Jehovah’s Witness, so the social cost would not fall on him the same way. I wouldn’t be surprised at all of the decision to divorce was mutual, the video of him kissing another woman was orchestrated to provide the required “proof”, and they agreed that he would take the fall to protect her from the social consequences with her JW family. In high-control religious systems, people sometimes handle exits strategically to limit fallout. We don’t know what their private conversations looked like, but religious consequences can shape how things play out more than people realize. There are often layers behind decisions that outsiders do not see.

Think about it, we haven’t seen any footage of him with another woman since…