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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be so angry if my parents did this. It's ALL going to fall on you now as their kid. Even little appts like eye appts where they dilate your eyes will need someone to drive the parent. Parents should be helping each other through sicknesses in old age and not burdening their kids. And multiple holidays now...

My aunt and uncle did this and financially they really never recovered.[/quote]

Lots of parents are widowed and then this happens anyway. My mom died at 61. This is just the way it goes. You can help or not help as you see fit, but you aren’t entitled to dictate your parents marriage.[/quote]

If your parents are widowed, it means you only have one parent to take care of, not two. I have a lot of sympathy for widows and widowers.

I also don't understand gray divorce. The hard parts of babies, raising kids, paying off a mortgage, and both working out of the house are gone. Can't they just have different hobbies and get different bedrooms? Make friends on their own and travel. All the gray divorces I know of are so that one party doesn't have to take care of the other, sicker party. And often the parents now want separate holidays, nope- that ship has sailed. [/quote]

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