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[quote=Anonymous]To see them argue is eating me up. They've been married almost 40 years. I'm an only child and looking to get engaged this year. Looks like I am going to be the bride with the separated parents.

The background is, they live in the metropolitan area where my mom grew up. Dad hates it and says it's nothing but strip malls and subdivisions. Plus, they have been in the same house for 25 years and he wants something different. Mom retired four years ago and wakes up at 11AM, then sits in a recliner on the phone and usually doesn't leave the house until 2 or 3PM. Dad says he would rather be divorced and live in a beat up apartment with empty liquor bottles than retire to that (he tends to get dramatic).

The other piece is dad makes a lot of money, likes what he does, and wants to keep going (he's in his late 60s). Mom tells him he should be retired and has no business working while they are getting old and may not be able to travel someday.

Do I stay out of it? Try to be supportive? These are two people who want completely different things out of life as they get older. Mom wants to hang out with her two sisters (her entire family never left the area) and dad would.love to do something like live in Europe for a few years.[/quote]

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