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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the supportive comments.

The saddest, stupidest thing is that I thought mother in law would support her daughter a little. Like do something resembling support. Not the complete freaking opposite.

Selfishly I was hoping we could still have one parent/grandparent(meaning MIL) from DHs family. But her support of the pedophile means we've lost both of them.

Obviously there are bigger fish to fry in this whole ordeal. And more important issues to tackle.

Also I'm just so enraged that a mother could suck this much. And obviously a father too. I think the rage towards mil right now is because I'm first hand witnessing her (in)actions. Whereas FILs are more vague/past tense to me, but obviously much more horrific. [/quote]

Is MIL very weak, dependent, traditional? Is she a slave to appearances?

Maybe she's just processing everything. Hopefully she'll do the right thing once she faces the truth.

I'm very sorry for your SIL. I'm glad she has you guys to support her.[/quote]

Yes on the dependent and traditional. AND big yes on slave to appearances. I guess I should have expected her reaction.[/quote]

Yeah. Not uncommon. My wife says that she's pretty sure that her mother knew, but her mother was a SAHM and knew that if she admitted it she'd have to leave him and get a job and she didn't want to have to work...

This is the social machinery that perpetuates abuse. Good for your SIL for breaking out of it -- and you (and your husband, presumably) for supporting her.[/quote]

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