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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Heavy investigation of the future in-laws.

Go on vacation with them.

Ask how close they are to their families of origin.[/quote]
My DH is very close to his family and they present as Leave It To Beaver wholesome until they think the coast is clear. My in laws outright helped DH hide things from me, such as an institutionalized schizophrenic uncle and my sister in law having a severe drug addiction (that died of after I married DH). Some families are really no good.[/quote]

If we’re going to start blacklisting entire families because someone, somewhere in the family tree had a mental illness, then no one is ever getting married again.

One of my parents has four siblings.  One of the siblings is an alcoholic with mental illness who lives in such complete filth that no one can even enter his house; everyone just gives him some money when his situation becomes especially dire. The other four siblings are productive members of society, in the middle or upper-middle class, and are in 40+ year marriages.[/quote]

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