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[quote=Anonymous]Your priority needs to be providing adequate support to your daughter who is suffering a mental health crisis. That is going to mean talking to her and hearing her when she tells you what she needs. Period.

As far as the relationship goes:

I've never seen open parental/family judgment regarding a romantic partner help anyone, and it can hurt just about everyone. If your DD is "working in a professional capacity at a Fortune 100 firm," she doesn't need you or her mother or brother or anyone else explaining to her what kind of challenges she might face with a partner she has been with, even if on-and-off, for years. You aren't going to tell her anything she doesn't already know. So I'd back off from this "share with our DD our concerns about the challenges they would face as life partners" stuff and just welcome him, assuming that is what your daughter wants you to do.

As far as the relationship bringing her to the brink of suicide, that doesn't necessarily mean there is anything wrong with this young man. But you won't know anything about it unless you talk to your DD (and, potentially, him). [/quote]

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