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People I know personally were strongly ostracized after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses (in the US) and the Catholic church (in Latin America). Cut out of their existing social circles, immediate family members refusing to attend their wedding over it, etc.

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JWs do i as a matter of policy, but I would not call them mainstream.

Not my experience of the Catholic Church at all, having left it myself (and getting married in a registry office etc.), and having friends who have done so in more than one country. Not one of us as had any friend or relative hold it against us.

It might be a feature of a particular region or culture, or reflective of controlling family, but not of the Catholic Church in general.

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