I think it is very common a middle aged person take in senior parents when they age and cannot take care of themselves. I can see that this happen after one of them passed away and it is not safe for the other to live alone. What happen if they divorced and they remained single? If they couldn't get along with each other, who gets taken care of?
I always wonder about a cousin of mine, her parents couldn't get along with each others and eventually they separated (they didn't bother divorce as they are already near 80), so she send her dad to a nursing home and took her mom in. It was always difficult for her to keep things fair between them and not make one more jealous than the other.
How do our fellow BITOGers do it? What would we do if say my wife and I divorce and both need long term care and our daughters can only take care of 1 of us?
I always wonder about a cousin of mine, her parents couldn't get along with each others and eventually they separated (they didn't bother divorce as they are already near 80), so she send her dad to a nursing home and took her mom in. It was always difficult for her to keep things fair between them and not make one more jealous than the other.
How do our fellow BITOGers do it? What would we do if say my wife and I divorce and both need long term care and our daughters can only take care of 1 of us?