My connection to the Bahai Faith goes back to the mid 1970's when I was in the Army and stationed in Hawaii. I had found and read a book about the Faith and left it for my wife to read while I was away on maneuvers. Imagine my surprise when I returned and found that my wife had JOINED them. Well, I thought that the best way to find out just what sort of craziness she had gotten into was to join myself and find out first-hand. It didn't take long for us to become well integrated into the local community and took part in all the activities. I was very active in the "teaching" campaigns, even getting my best friend to join the Faith. Strangely enough, I managed to retain my "free-thinker" self in the midst of all this somehow and, encouraged by the principle of freedom to "investigate truth," continued to read as much as possible about the faith... even those books which the Faith deemed "dangerous."   I had some real problems with the whole idea of "infallibility" for the Universal House of Justice among other things and ended up being called in to meet with the Local Assembly about my actions and things I had said to other Bahais about things I had learned. To make a long story short, I had to sever my connection with them in order to maintain any semblance of sprititual integrity.
My wife remained faithful to the Faith and as our relationship became more strained, were divorced after a "year of patience." Nearly twenty years later, she is still a Bahai and I am a Unitarian Universalist which is MUCH more amenable to my quest for truth.