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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you expect your kids to care for you (your ex) when you are sick?

My MIL lives in an over 55 community. It's a big issue. Divorced people don't have anybody to care for them. Their kids have lives, they have no partner. Often, when it is a 2nd marriage, the wife/husband leaves when there is an illness. They call the kids and say, I am out of here. [/quote]

So what? A lot of older people are widowed, or one is institutionalized. Sorry for the inconvenience of declining parents, but that's life. Either way, it's no picnic for any of us dealing with aging, infirm parents, whether they're married, widowed, or divorced.

My elderly parents look after each other physically, but they practically hate each other and have been miserable for decades. I wish they'd divorced years ago. We hate dealing with them as a pair, with twice the inertia to battle. And now one of them is developing dementia and the other is being cruel, but you can't separate them. It would be easier to take care of them separately, and certainly more pleasant.

Yet DCUM's 1950s throwback "adult" children think Mommy and Daddy should be married until death comes to their rose-covered cottage and neatly sweeps their immaculate corpses off into the heavens together, and then the adult children can come back and wear crisp linens and reminisce by a bonfire on the beach about how perfect and easy Mommy and Daddy made life for them. I'm sorry some of you were latchkey children and never got over it, but at some point you have to start thinking like a grown up.

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:lol: It's so true. The whiny posters here sound like spoiled, hysterical teenagers. Crying in a bathroom stall because you are visiting two parents! It's really unbelievable.

I bet they don't admit to friends or in public that they're so selfish. 
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