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[quote=Anonymous]My MIL is like this too, she’s older now (late 70s) so it makes sense a little but she was also like that when I met my husband 20 years ago. Doesn’t drive, doesn’t order for herself in restaurants, she stopped working in her early 40s to take care of her own aging parents and that’s when most of this started according to my SIL’s. She gets FIL or one of her (now obviously adult) children to take her to the store, appointments, restaurants etc. I don’t even necessarily think it’s anxiety, because they go plenty of places together and even do some longer distance traveling. I always thought it was weird but what do I know.

A person in their mid-60s now is a very late Baby Boomer in terms of generation so it seems like the old sexist ideas about women that older Boomers and Silent Gen’s lived with wouldn’t come into play. I don’t know that you can fix this unfortunately. Especially if she’s let her drivers license lapse or hasn’t done anything on her own in years. [/quote]

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