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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is a bunch of nonsense.

[quote]However well intentioned you are, you shouldn’t spend Thanksgiving trying to convince your parents that it’s time for them to sell the house and move into assisted living. Let them make their own mistakes, even if you might have to deal with the consequences. Your parents are adults. Give them the dignity of their own experience.[/quote]

While Thanksgiving Day isn't the time for this conversation, it is fine to encourage parents to downsize and move to a safer living space. Especially if me dealing with the consequences = putting my job in jeopardy to take time off to care for them after they fall on the stairs.

[quote]Would you want to spend your last Thanksgiving resenting your father’s politics?[/quote]

Well if I only have a year to live because my father's politics limited my access to health care or the amount of spending/research into the condition that is taking me out, then yeah, I'm going to spend it resenting him and the rest of his ilk.

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This. Thanksgiving isn’t the time for the discussion but the next ten years of one’s life shouldn’t be devoted to elderly parents’ unreasonable demand to stay in a house that is too big and expensive for them. [/quote]

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