Primrose53
My parents had been married over 60 years and did everything together. My Dad died aged 86 (but looked and acted much younger). My brother said Mum would never cope without him and we should prepare ourselves for her to go soon after but she lived very happily to nearly 97. I was amazed and so pleased that she coped very well.
My parents did everything together, too, but that meant my mother was really lost without him. She did cope very well with many things, but turned into something of a recluse, since she couldn’t face any (non family) socialising without him.
He was only 72, she went on to 97, but alas, from her early 80s that was with bastard Alzheimer’s.
