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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what's missing here.  What disorder does she have?  [/quote]

She’s been in and out of the hospital for mental illness and emergency situations but my ILs are very secretive. I know that she has sometimes received treatment and medication for depression, and borderline personality disorder was first diagnosed  ~20 years ago and that seems like the best explanation for what we experience at a distance. I don’t know what she is like day-to-day so there may be more to it.[/quote]

Does she harass others or just you? What set her off to target you?

I'm curious about the restraint order problem. Why can't you get one exactly? [/quote]

For harassment that is not in-person in our state, she would have to threaten violence and then we would have to press charges in our state but find a judge in hers to serve the order of protection (lawyer people, forgive me, I am paraphrasing from our attorney and might have missed a step or the person that services the order). It is extra complicated because she spends a lot of time in another country and some of her harassment originates from there.

We (DH and I) are her main target but my MIL sometimes is targeted by her rages. She does not have any friends and most relatives avoid her, so I don’t know if we are the target due to lack or other options or because of something else.[/quote]

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