How Do I Get My Wife Off Drugs?

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My divorced sister-in-law started dating a guy who just happened to have dated my wife about 10 years ago. It was a pretty rough relationship he had with my wife. He got into drugs and my wife tried getting him out of his situation. They broke up and years later her sister wanted to date him. My wife, now disgusted with him, warned her about him but she didn’t listen and dated him anyway. They started and stopped about 3 times based on arguments, him cheating on her and finally him going to jail after beating her. She also claimed in her police report that he had nonconsensual sex with her but he was not charged for that. He served his time and low and behold less than a year later they got back together and are now engaged. She claims (as she did before) that he’s changed and is in counseling and took anger management classess…woopty doo. The family is against this relationship especially for the sake of her kids (from previous marriage…forgot to mention that). They are 8 and 9 years old. This gets more awkward every minute of the day. Her sisters, mom, dad and everyone have discussed their displeasure of the relationship with her but she just says “you guys don’t know him.” She says we have to forgive him and we say fine, whatever he is forgiven but needs to move on. I can’t believe he even would want to stay in this relationship with everyone hating him so much. Why not just move on himself? He thinks he is Romeo and can just buy things, remodel her kitchen, be a playmate/attempted father figure to her kids and everything will be alright (fyi…her ex-husband/kids father is still around and has the kids every other weekend or so. they didn’t get along but he never beat her). What else is left to do? It doesn’t seem like she will ever listen. We are becoming the “bad guys” when we all know who the real “bad guy” is.

My wife has overdosed and abused prescription medication multiple times. Our 14 month old baby boy isn’t safe at home with her. How do I protect him legally from her???