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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for all of the comments. I won't be paying her attorney fees. I really can't afford it. I did send her some money today to bring her bank account back up from overdrawn, but that's all I will do.

I don't agree that pleading guilty is what she should do. I think she should do whatever it takes to reduce the charges and try to keep her job and her kids. She will hire a lawyer to deal with this and she'll get the money from somewhere, most likely my parents. But telling my parents is something she is going to do for sure.[/quote]

Good luck, OP. I'm the PP with the alcoholic husband. I told his parents about his drinking problem -- particularly that I had caught him on multiple occasions drinking and driving with our child in the car. He was not busted by the cops, but as I struggled with how to stop him my therapist told me that she wished he would have been arrested because it could have been the wake up call he needed. She even suggested that I call the cops on him if he did it again. I didn't want to go that far, but instead I asked his parents for help. We staged an intervention and after a big struggle to get him to admit his problem and go to rehab. He's been sober for four years. There is hope but it's a hard road. Best to you. [/quote]

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