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[quote=Anonymous]My sister came for Thanksgiving one year and didn't leave for 8 months. Totally unexpected and yeah, my DH and I can see plenty of opportunities to have been more assertive but it was not at all obvious at the time. Probably ~2-3 months into it, we did have a very frank discussion about the state of things, and the options to keep a roof over her head. There weren't many. We all made an agreement to keep muddling through but with one unambiguous rule -- no pot. Not in the house, and not elsewhere while she was living with us. I still don't know if she was good at hiding it for 5 months or could deal with the restriction for that long, but she came home high and with pot and that was it. We already had the plan (which she was well aware of) and we put her in a cheap and minimal studio apartment in a town with her best connections (family, friends, jobs ... and thankfully cheap). We didn't really speak beyond necessities for a few years but interact a bit more now.

Sounds like a totally different set of specifics, but I mostly wanted to chime in that it's only because I experienced it that I get how this happens. Or at least know that it just does happen, whether it makes much sense or not. Good luck![/quote]

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