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[quote=Anonymous]The "history of mental illness" is too vague to be meaningful.  What are we talking about here? A prescription to Prozac for anxiety, or multiple suicide attempts and in-patient hospitalizations?

Of course we don't want to stigmatize mental illness. Plenty of people with diagnosed and treated mental illnesses are perfectly capable of having loving, wonderful marriages and raising happy and stable kids.....

....says the woman who was not diagnosed prior to marriage but is now on anti-depressants and doing much better, who married a guy who had episodes of major depression who is also doing much better. I married him despite seeing a couple of those depressive episodes, which were scary and involved him losing employment. I must have really loved the guy, huh?

But I have also definitely seen the damaging effects of severe, untreated mental illness in our extended families and it is not pretty. I don't think you have to be a "bigot" to recognize that reality. Sometimes love is just not enough and even if a person is worthy of love, that doesn't necessarily mean you want to choose as a life partner someone who has, for example, a history of treatment-resistant drug addiction and multiple relapses. [/quote]

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