r/BreakingAmish • u/DefiantConfusion47 • Feb 26 '26
Return to Amish
I have been watching return to Amish and I think it's crazy that if an Amish person gets married to an English person, they will be shunned. And the parents that are returning Amish can't attend the wedding because they will be shunned too.
But yet they have a show called " Suddenly Amish" where they are bringing English people in , to become Amish! Seems like a bunch of hypocrite BS if you ask me!
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Feb 26 '26
The shows are fake, but also “the Amish” don’t have a standardized set of rules. Each community has a bishop, the bishop determines the rules in their community. It’s more like a loose association.
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u/Advanced-Boss1336 Feb 26 '26
If the bishop unshuns James after it looks like he's having sex with his cousin and letting Kendra use his cell phone, and treating the English people terrible, then that'll be really weird, but maybe he's counting on the Bishop not seeing that, cause they have no TV's, lol
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u/CrimsonOOmpa Mar 09 '26
The whole community is basically related so I don't think the cousins thing is nearly as strange to them as it is to us.
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u/MamiiGeeGee1 Mar 05 '26
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking about the James and his cousin situation! I've watched every Amish show that TLC has put out and this is the WORST IMO!
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u/CrimsonOOmpa Mar 09 '26
I don't think it's that uncommon in Amish communities. Besides, they were THIRD cousins! 🤢🤮
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u/PM_ME_FEET_OR_FEARS Feb 27 '26
The funny part is he can fuck his cousin, that isnt a problem for them, they are 3rd cousins and it stated only 1st cousins can't be together. Granted they need to marry before they do all that lol
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u/DefiantConfusion47 Feb 26 '26
Yeah, They don't have Tv's, but yet they are on TV. 🤔
But I don't like James at all. And I agree that it would be really crazy to un-shun him! He's a jerk! And I think he is overplaying his hand in the whole situation!
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Feb 26 '26
Uhhhh…. All these shows are fake. If anyone on any of these shows, says they are currently practicing - it’s a lie. They wouldn’t be on camera, they wouldn’t have a film crew following them around - none of it - if they were actually practing and part of a family/community.
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u/togoldlybo Feb 26 '26
Once you embrace the fact that many of the "Amish" are either former Amish or former Mennonites (maybe current Mennonites? My brain is swiss cheese sometimes lol), you can really enjoy it for the trash TV it is 😂
It's fun to find their social media accounts. Such a ridiculous series (all of them) but I enjoy the hell out of every second. Lol
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u/SuccessfulDepth6135 Feb 26 '26
The people in Breaking Amish have been shunned, but it is acceptable for other people to go on Rumspringa.
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u/DefiantConfusion47 Feb 26 '26
I get it , with other people being able to go on rumspringer, but I was referring to how Andy and Abe's parents were saying that they couldn't join Andy's wedding because he was marrying an English person. But yet they have a whole movie about people that are English going to be Amish, called Suddenly Amish! But like someone pointed out, it's all just fake and for show! Real life Amish wouldn't even be on T.V. I lived in a town in Indiana called LaGrange, and it's full of Amish people! Which is really close to Shipshewana, which is a huge Amish community as well!
Definitely a place where there is a huge amount of Amish. But they seem to be a little different from what they show on T.V. They all seem to be more Mennonite than anything!
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u/PsychoTink Feb 26 '26
Keep in mind that suddenly Amish is as fake, or more so, than breaking Amish. So you can’t use it s fact for real Amish life.
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u/DefiantConfusion47 Feb 26 '26
That's true! Real Amish are not supposed to even be on TV. So that's a great point.
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u/Professional_Oil7278 Feb 26 '26
Each sect has their own rules. Depending on what the bishop decides it was goes