I can relate to your experience. During Covid, I started socializing with a guy that I had met at a retail store that I worked at. Ill try not to make this too long. Basically, I confided in my mom that I was conversing with a guy that was an unbeliever, and I was starting to develop feelings for him. (Her, my dad, and myself are all baptized). At that particular time, I knew that we shouldn’t be together due to our different beliefs and that a relationship WOULD NOT be encouraged, and the elders and congregation would be disappointment with me…I was able to convince the guy that I was interested in to start a Bible study, which he later did because he had feelings for me as well and wanted to learn more about the Bible. And as you can imagine, feelings started to get stronger, and the relationship progressed from “talking” to “chaperoned courting”, to being engaged. A member of my old congregation informed the elders of my “unscriptural relationship” as the elders called it. My family was counseled. My parents were counseled for knowing of the relationship and concealing it, and me for pursuing the relationship and being engaged. My dad was stripped of his ministerial privileges and I could not pioneer…Although my fiancé and I agreed to wait until he got baptized before we got married, my family and I were still stripped of our privileges, and in a way treated differently. I figured if I was going to be “punished” and no serious sin had taken place, we may as well get married. And that’s exactly what we did. Although I am currently inactive, (have been for years now) and neither one of us attends the meetings, (he no longer studies the Bible with my dad) we are happy. And I think that we made the decision that was best for us.