Ilona Siekkinen tells about the Iltalolla podcast how Jehovah’s Witnesses have affected her family relationships.
Ilona Siekkinen talks about Jehovah’s Witnesses at the Iltalonuoto podcast. Pasi Liesimaa
Fitness coaches Ilona Siekkinen and Mikko Niiranen tell about their relationship and life Sami Kuronen On the eveningin the new episode of the podcast.
One of the topics discussed in the episode is Siekkinen, 28, the difference between Jehovah’s Witnesses. Siekkinen got off Jehovah’s Witnesses as a teenager and at the age of 18 he finally divorced the movement. At first, Siekkinen had no relationship with his family and his former friends.
– The intervals are automatically interrupted. Of course, it is everyone’s own thing, whether you still want to keep in touch. But yes it was really fierce, it lost all friends and family, Siekkinen says in the episode.
Siekkinen has felt a lot of feeling that he had no “normal family”.
– Because we have much more than the challenges of religion in our family, this familyynamics are not normal anyway, Siekkinen describes.
– Yes, I am many times, most recently yesterday, wondering if it would be normal. It would have been all normal in life to be a stereotypical family. I would have liked one, he continues.
Today, Siekkinen has neutral relationships with his parents. Siekkinen has some deal with his family.
Siekkinen says in the episode that in difficult times of life it would be great to call your own parent and talk about things.
One such moment was when Siekkinen and Niiranen lost their children last year. The couple’s firstborn was born dead in May. Siekkinen has previously described to Iltalehti that the loss of a child is one of the worst nightmares of his life.
– It would be nice to call my mother and shed him. I don’t call my mother, but I call Minna. It goes differently for me, Siekkinen says.
Minna is Siekkinen’s “deputy mother” and friend. Siekkinen says at the podcast that Minna handles her business and Siekkinen’s financial matters.
– Although Minna is a deputy mother, she doesn’t replace the real mother. Mom is always a mother, Dad is always a father. Yes it takes deep that there are no good relationships, Siekkinen says.
Kuronen asks Siekkinen if he and his parents could heal in the future.
– We have neutral relationships with parents, but I dare say there is no opportunity, Siekkinen concludes.
Sami Kuronen On the evening-podcast can be listened to In podimo.