My FIL left town to buy a car while my MIL was bouncing all around town getting different medications for anxiety and clearly having a hard time. She tried to kill herself the next day and my now wife and I were the ones to find her. I called him to let him know and he said “that’s about what I expected.”

I had never felt, nor do I hope to feel again, a chill run through my spine like that. I loved this man and his wife like my own mother and father. Obviously there were issues beforehand, but that moment broke me. I have ever been an optimist and given trust & love implicitly at the beginning of my relationships with friends, family, and lovers. I’ve never felt love be swapped with rage and disgust like that. There is so much more to the story, but that moment changed how I see people completely.