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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP. There aren't any easy answers about what you can and cannot make your parents do or understand, but it sounds like you need to have a come to Jesus conversation with your father that makes 100% clear to him that you're not moving back to their country and that, assuming he dies first, there needs to be a plan in place for your mom. It sounds to me that they have a totally co-dependent relationship and that it fulfills a need in your father to be so desperately needed by your mother that he "can't" leave her alone for even a second. But it seems to me that, if possible, you need to turn this co-dependence to your advantage in laying down a firm line that you simply are unable to step into his shoes if he dies first, and that, if he truly loves her so much that he cannot leave her side for even a second, then he needs to plan for when he leaves her for good.[/quote]
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