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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for you. You obviously know that your response is healthy and great. Hopefully your sister will get on board, but that isn’t really for you to manage.  I’m sure there will be lots of negative commentary directed at her (were you hoping for that?), but her opinion has nothing to do with you.[/quote]

No, I’m not looking for others to dogpile on my sister, so much as reassurance that I’m not somehow disrespecting my father. I think if my father were looking down upon us (I’m spiritual but not religious) he would want my mother to be happy but that doesn’t mean that he would want her to find another man. I want to believe that I can respect my father’s memory but also want companionship for my mother late in life.

Interesting about the nurse-and-purse thing. My mom lives in a small town and is not wealthy by DC standards, but she’s UMC for a small town. Comfortable. Nice SFH fully paid off, relatively low property taxes, and she has my fathers pension and healthcare. My dad was a state union employee and had all the “cadillac” benefits. As of now, she’s quite healthy and mobile, but pays my nephews for yard work and random fix-its. Loneliness is the real concern, especially as the grandkids go away to college and have their own lives. [/quote]

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