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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom repeatedly threatened to divorce my dad as he declined. She hated having him at home and never wanted him to retire. She had buckets of money to throw at the situation, but refused to have caregivers in the house, refused a day program and refused to put him in memory care. It was hellish. Finally she agreed to hired help, but she was losing it at him and me and everyone and wouldn't get psychiatric help. The more he declined the more she tantrumed, but still refused to have him in residential, yet she was declaring she was going to get a divorce. When he passed she visited his grace every day and needed a new target for her disgust-that would be me.

I don't know about your mom, but my mother worked part time now and then and got to keep all that money for herself. They traveled plenty. She had a maid several times a week, went to the spa, are at nice restaurants for decades. She just did not want to deal when life was not easy and yet she could have made life easier by having him somewhere safe and visiting, but she refused. Now she is a wealthy widow and gets her feathers ruffled if people don't cater to her enough.[/quote]

Similar story here.  It was obvious mom needed a constant antagonist in her life after my father died.  The kids became a rotating cast of in her victim drama after that.  Shit, it was ugly what my father had to go thru.[/quote]

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