11-07-2023, 09:09 PM
Gene's story was like a personal horror story.
He seemed like a good guy, but he ended up dependent on a woman he wasn't married to and her kids seemed to fear him getting in the way of their inheritance. They acted on this fear and pretty much ruined the end of his life. What a nightmare. I had a hard time engaging in those threads - I didn't see any solution and had no advice to offer. Part of me wanted to scold him for allowing himself to be so vulnerable, but what good would that do? I certainly wanted to address his woman, but being 62, I'm now seeing the beginning of what old age is like and I understand her fear better now.
I know my mother was like a child as she got older. Fear was never that far away and if she ever thought that me and my sister would abandon her for something she was doing, she would have stopped it at any cost.
I feel bad that I never offered Gene any help at all and then he was gone...
He seemed like a good guy, but he ended up dependent on a woman he wasn't married to and her kids seemed to fear him getting in the way of their inheritance. They acted on this fear and pretty much ruined the end of his life. What a nightmare. I had a hard time engaging in those threads - I didn't see any solution and had no advice to offer. Part of me wanted to scold him for allowing himself to be so vulnerable, but what good would that do? I certainly wanted to address his woman, but being 62, I'm now seeing the beginning of what old age is like and I understand her fear better now.
I know my mother was like a child as she got older. Fear was never that far away and if she ever thought that me and my sister would abandon her for something she was doing, she would have stopped it at any cost.
I feel bad that I never offered Gene any help at all and then he was gone...