Edited sentence: " Cults will pretend to love you to death as long as you are a prospective convert to their group.As a member of a tight-knit community, love will surround you as you faithfully follow all of the strict rules of the cult.However, if you ever decide that you want to leave the group, if you ever disobey any of the rules of the cult, or if you express doubt about any of the cult's doctrine, then all "love" suddenly ceases.Love-bombing is characteristic of most cults, especially the Jehovah's Witnesses.New recruits are drowned in a sea of fake "love" and "caring.The member is then shunned and excommunicated (which Jehovah's Witnesses call "disfellowshipping"), and all remaining members are instructed to never have any contact with them in the future, not even to greet them.Then all effort is directed towards finding new recruits to replace the shunned members who have "gone astray