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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Betrayal? No, because some people are delusional about what aging looks like and how they will age. Some people are downright selfish in what they expect their adult children to endure for years and years. Too often the ones who live a long time in a state of dementia and illness leave a legacy of siblings who now hate eachother, illness in the person who endured the most and resentment. I think it's a betrayal to not be realistic about aging to bury one's head in the sand and expect everyone to upend their lives and make you more of a priority than their own children and spouse. I might have said something different a few years into this. After enough years I am so over the entitlement and delusion.[/quote]

I think may people expect aging to look like an AARP commercial- having fun, dancing smiling, traveling, being with grandkids, playing bingo with their friends. And this will so on until their 80's-90's until they clutch their heart and keel over. Of course you'd want to live in your home and age in place if that was going to be the last decades of your life. They are in denial about what growing old is really like. [/quote]

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