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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's really the eldercare that's getting her down. Eldercare is HARD and it's not like raising children where they grow and change in mostly positive ways. Instead it's loss, difficulty, and ultimately death. It can be loving and fulfilling but it's also hard, hard, hard. I would think she's in anticipatory grief for the parents, overwhelmed by their needs, and feels alone in it all because her DH is absent. [/quote] I agree. I think eldercare might be the real problem. A lot of kid activities are very enjoyable to some people. Clearly she's a SAHM because she enjoys them. If she didn't enjoy them, she'd go back to work and outsource these. I LOVE planning vacations, planning birthday parties, organizing kid stuff, sitting at soccer games, going to playgrounds. I would just listen and nod your head. She just wants someone to vent to, not someone to problem solve her life for her. [/quote]
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