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DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: Earlier this year my wife started taking anti-depressants. She had been on them before, when she was a teenager and had had a bad time with a bunch of bad things happening at once. She began gaining weight back then, and took herself off the meds and hasn’t taken anything since then until now.

She had a major health scare this summer and that triggered her depression and anxiety, and the family practice doctor we see started her on new meds.

Now my wife is gaining weight again. She is exercising, watching what she eats, doing everything you’re supposed to do, but she has still gained nearly 30 lbs. in the past few months. I keep telling her to talk to her doctor about changing her prescriptions, but she says at least she isn’t depressed anymore, but I am afraid the weight gain is going to make her depressed all over again.

What can I do to help her realize she needs to do something before the weight becomes its own problem, both for her physical and mental health? --- NEEDS HELP WITH MEDS

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[conuly]

Dear Amy: My mother-in-law is causing a rift in the family that's hurting my husband.

We haven't been married long, and his divorce was a contentious one. His ex managed to delay every step of the divorce, and went after everything she could, including the house, which he ended up leaving to her just to bring the proceedings to an end.

My husband cried when he told his parents years ago how unhappy he was in the marriage, and his mother's response was only, "How will this affect the grandchildren?" While they were divorcing, she took the grand "children" (they're twins in their early 20s) and their mother to Disney World! Most recently, she took her grandchildren out to dinner on their birthday with – you guessed it – the ex, and not her son/us.

He and I have asked her and the rest of his family to wean off from socializing with the ex. My MIL claims she's afraid the ex will cut her and her husband off from their grandchildren because the ex is very manipulative and the twins are very immature (they don't drive, live with their mom, and have no life).

The rest of the extended family has respected our wishes to cut ties with the ex, but not my MIL, and this has been very hurtful to my husband. He feels like he doesn't have his own parents' support. (His father is passive and let's his wife do whatever she wants.)

Please advise us on what we can do. We do not want this dynamic to continue.

– Disturbed

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