One of my friends lost her father to cancer when she was in college. Her mother remarried a couple of years later. At that time she told my friend: "It's not that I love your father any less, but I am still in my 40s and I would like to have some companionship in the coming years."
Given that my friend's maternal grandmother lived to be 101, I think that was a wise strategy. Decades later, my friend's mother is 85 or 86 and she has outlived her second husband and is still going strong.
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Date: 2022-01-27 04:34 am (UTC)Given that my friend's maternal grandmother lived to be 101, I think that was a wise strategy. Decades later, my friend's mother is 85 or 86 and she has outlived her second husband and is still going strong.