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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Statistically, your father will probably develop a relationship within someone relatively quickly.  I know it's a difficult thought when you've so recently lost your mom, but it is the truth.

This may be a great blessing for you. If the woman is a decent person and lives there locally, she may have an extended family who may take your father under their wings and keep an eye on him.  
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Yes, he may meet a woman. I highly doubt her adult children will be looking to take on more eldercare duties for anyone but their own mother especially when the man has an adult child who is living. Most of us adult children are burned out from just parents and inlaws. I would make sure you have an eldercare service you can hire when relatives get sick of catering to him, but the ideal would be for him to move to a place where it is all right there.

If he's still working he should still be able to hire Uber and hire an aide if needed. If he is too stubborn to do so, but cognitively all there, then he is an adult making his own decisions. If his only soultion is you drop everything, you figure our your boundaries and set them.[/quote]

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