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20yo difficult child determined to get married - soon
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 498660" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>You need to attempt to befriend this entire family if you want to keep your son close. I will tell you that. I attempted to get to know my sons first wifes family but that wasnt possible because they lived in Utah and I live in NC. On the day the two of them married in NC, I called her mother on my cell phone and asked her if she would like to listen to the ceremony live but was rebuked. I later found out that this was a troubled family unit. Not surprising considering the daughter was troubled...sigh.</p><p></p><p>With my current daughter in law I was scared to death to meet her family but in the end I actually ended up liking her mom even though we didnt have a whole lot in common. I have extremely little in common with my daughter in law. Heaven knows that one...but her mom was pretty nice once we got to know each other. Unfortunately she died in 2008. </p><p></p><p>I am sure there are workbooks out there about what a couple needs to work on before marriage but a marriage counselor would be good too. The premarital counseling would be good. They need to know how they feel about money, raising kids, where and how they want to live, what kind of jobs they both want to have, do they want to have one stay at home with the kids or have two working the whole time, what are their feelings about discipline for kids, how many kids do they want, birth control, how are they going to handle money, etc etc etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 498660, member: 1514"] You need to attempt to befriend this entire family if you want to keep your son close. I will tell you that. I attempted to get to know my sons first wifes family but that wasnt possible because they lived in Utah and I live in NC. On the day the two of them married in NC, I called her mother on my cell phone and asked her if she would like to listen to the ceremony live but was rebuked. I later found out that this was a troubled family unit. Not surprising considering the daughter was troubled...sigh. With my current daughter in law I was scared to death to meet her family but in the end I actually ended up liking her mom even though we didnt have a whole lot in common. I have extremely little in common with my daughter in law. Heaven knows that one...but her mom was pretty nice once we got to know each other. Unfortunately she died in 2008. I am sure there are workbooks out there about what a couple needs to work on before marriage but a marriage counselor would be good too. The premarital counseling would be good. They need to know how they feel about money, raising kids, where and how they want to live, what kind of jobs they both want to have, do they want to have one stay at home with the kids or have two working the whole time, what are their feelings about discipline for kids, how many kids do they want, birth control, how are they going to handle money, etc etc etc. [/QUOTE]
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