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Dear LFTP March 26, 2012 · 41:17 · 10 min

Iron Sharpens Iron: mom engaged to a prisoner she sends money to

  • My mother is engaged to a prisoner she sends money she can't afford, and my sister snoops in her accounts — what should I do?
  • Is it okay to read your kid's diary?

A listener writes that her divorced, depressed mother is engaged to a prisoner with fraud and domestic-abuse history, sending him money she can't afford, while her sister Susie snoops in the mother's accounts. The hosts advise honest confrontation and stopping the money, warn that prison conversions need a year or two to prove, and that a man in prison cannot lead a family. The secular answer suggests contacting the warden.

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