If anyone experienced this, please advice.

Hello everyone!

I wanted to post this here and see if anyone here dealt with these circumstances and has any thoughts on this matter. I have a good friend of mine, who is former member of the Local Church. He left the movement not to long ago. He contacted me and asked that I pray for him and give him any advise on how to go about whats happening now in his life.

I don't know many details, but a little time after he left the LC his wife has left him, and remained a strong devout supporter of this church. He told her why he is leaving the Recovery and why he no longer believes these teachings are Biblical. There has been basically no connection now for quite some time, and from what I hear that there are children involved. He really doesn't want to be around the practices and everything that comes with the "church life" anymore, but basically it comes down to choosing to have a family and continue to subject himself to all of it, or to lose the family and relationships with his wife and children. I'm not sure how to even approach the situation. I welcome any input, but please don't do what the LC members do, by just saying, "call on the Lord" and completely distancing themselves without any care or subjective substantive answers. I hope there are some mature adults, spiritual and otherwise, that understand the dilemma here, or have dealt with these issues in the past. I never understood why the recovery members are so aggressive about this group, that they will tear their family apart just to remain faithful to it's leaders. When I got the call like this, I realized it's actually real and alive.

Any help would be appreciated.

(Due to privacy of this matter, and for those involved, please don't ask me personal questions, since everyone here probably knows that the leaders of this group will try to read the tea leaves to identify those involved)
Thanks.