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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what were you hoping to hear when you started this thread?[/quote]
OP here. I wanted real life anecdotes from people who are or have been in similar situations. I did not want and am not interested in suggestions to sympathize and financially support an addict coming from posters who have never been in this position. I think the poster who doesn’t know any addicts and yet keeps posting links about how “complex” addiction is is being a twit. [/quote]

Sympathy =/= financial support.  Sympathy means that you approach this with the understanding that this is your husband's family, and this is hard for them.  You don't care if your SIL ends up homeless or overdoses, but they do.  They are afraid for her.  They don't know how to help her.  You don't love her, but they do.  If you come at this with nothing but disdain for her and for your in-laws, you and your husband are going to have a hard time figuring this out.  She's a lazy mooch to you, but she's his sister.  They are enabling morons to you, but they are his parents.  Even if you don't love her or them, hopefully you love your husband, and this has to be hard for him.  If you just make it about the money and about what his sister deserves....I foresee problems.  [/quote]

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