And she doesn't have her husband to lean on. That's gotta be hard.
On the subject of "I thought I'd still have time to hang out with *insert loved one's name here*": My parents are still around, but lately my mother has been giving everyone fits with her behavior. She caused a huge emotional scene at Christmas dinner that annoyed the hell out of everyone.
I visited a few days ago and my father could barely get a word in edgewise. I like to hear his take on things (we're often talking politics and they watch a lot of news). Often he'll start to say something and my mother cuts him off. By the time he has a chance to speak again he has a hard time to remember his point.
I miss the days when he was more active and we'd be working some project together or we'd be out in the woods and we could have less frenetic and disjointed conversations. Lately he seems worn down and exhausted from having to deal with my mother perhaps even to the point where he suffering a bit of mental decline.
Bookmarks