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Baptism by fire, or my sister in law's intro to our family!
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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 298038" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>She's going to have to learn some time and better it's sooner than later. If she doesn't really "get" it.....have her babysit sometime. That usually does it with us! LOL (Sorry, I really shouldn't laugh but I've been there. Not always with family but I've been there.)</p><p></p><p>If she adopts....**insert "you may be in for a surprise" chuckle here** is she planning on doing an infant adoption or an older child? If she's thinking the older child, would you like me to make up a list of descriptive phrases for her to watch out for? I look back on the description we received initially of difficult child....wow. If I had half the knowledge then that I do now...I might have had a clue as to what we were in for.</p><p></p><p>Honestly though, I do feel for her. She's married into a family where difficult child's pop up regularly and she probably has no idea. If she's concerned about having children, I can relate too. I'm almost 39 years old and STILL get mad some months when I get my period. At the same time though, if I were to get pregnant, I would be nervous. My mother in law is severly schizophrenic, one of her brothers more than likely had something also but self-medicated and died in his 30's from what sounds like a partial suicide and partial OD. On my side, we have a running joke about the "faulty ~family name~ gene" because of some particular "personality" traits some of us show in varying degrees. What we joke about is very likely something that can be diagnosis'd and HAS been in a couple of family members. Things like this run in families and even if there is no history....it has to start somewhere. </p><p></p><p>So....here's hoping she's got the sense enough to believe you, educate herself on things and handle things in a mature manner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 298038, member: 2459"] She's going to have to learn some time and better it's sooner than later. If she doesn't really "get" it.....have her babysit sometime. That usually does it with us! LOL (Sorry, I really shouldn't laugh but I've been there. Not always with family but I've been there.) If she adopts....**insert "you may be in for a surprise" chuckle here** is she planning on doing an infant adoption or an older child? If she's thinking the older child, would you like me to make up a list of descriptive phrases for her to watch out for? I look back on the description we received initially of difficult child....wow. If I had half the knowledge then that I do now...I might have had a clue as to what we were in for. Honestly though, I do feel for her. She's married into a family where difficult child's pop up regularly and she probably has no idea. If she's concerned about having children, I can relate too. I'm almost 39 years old and STILL get mad some months when I get my period. At the same time though, if I were to get pregnant, I would be nervous. My mother in law is severly schizophrenic, one of her brothers more than likely had something also but self-medicated and died in his 30's from what sounds like a partial suicide and partial OD. On my side, we have a running joke about the "faulty ~family name~ gene" because of some particular "personality" traits some of us show in varying degrees. What we joke about is very likely something that can be diagnosis'd and HAS been in a couple of family members. Things like this run in families and even if there is no history....it has to start somewhere. So....here's hoping she's got the sense enough to believe you, educate herself on things and handle things in a mature manner. [/QUOTE]
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