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The reality is, even if you do have children, there's no guarantee you will be cared for by them into your old age. My grandad is in a care home now in the dementia wing. He had too many falls and was no longer mobile enough to live independently. |
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As has been said here before, having children certainly isn't a guarantee of escaping a rather miserable and lonely old age. Sorry to be so depressing ![]() |
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^ Absolutely. My mum is 65. She did everything she could to care for my grandad, as he refused to live anywhere but on his own. She couldn't keep him safe though as she couldn't physically be there 24/7.
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Yep, my Nan lived until she was 86 and wanted to stay in her own home, so she had carers coming in twice a day to help her wash and dress etc and meals on wheels in the middle of the day....then at the weekends my Mum and my Uncle would take turns to stay over and do some housework and laundry for her, and also sort out any problems or issues with carers as they came up. It's a huge responsibility and for people who live a long way away from their parent or are an only child it just might not be possible. Then there's the people who simply have very difficult relationships with their parents!
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I moved from London to help look after my dad (who was housebound but tried to stay as independent as possible) for his last ten years - but not everyone can do that. I wasn't alone, he had district nurses too and a helpful neighbour, I still managed to work and live separately.
As aoon as I'm immobile, someone please take me out and shoot me (I reckon that'll be at least 25 years though) Sent from my SM-J330FN using Tapatalk |
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Actually, if immobile before I'm 81, I'll hang on to see what happens if I post here - then shoot me!
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#698
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When someone on a friendship/penfriend site (actually another bloke), who's around your age, sends you a message saying "Hey daddy" ...
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^ Are you sure that was a friendship site
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^ Yeah, it's a prominent site for penfriends and language learning. I've made an excellent, long-term penfriend from there.
But many people seem to be trying to treat it like a dating (perving) agency: there are a LOT of Middle Eastern men (blocked routinely by most of the women) who are hitting on Western women, and a LOT of women from Thailand and Russia/Ukraine looking for Western men to marry, it seems. |
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#702
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^ I thought you were anti weddings and marriage
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#703
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#704
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When you can't read the ingredients on something when you're shopping because you don't have your glasses
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#706
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When you need a magnifying glass to read the tiny writing on phone chargers etc, and you still can't decipher it.
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#707
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When you have to take a 'moment' standing up from out of the bath.
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^ A friend of mine, who is British Asian, didn't have an arranged marriage but was introduced to her now husband by relatives - something which she had resisted for a long time. Anyway, it turned out that they were a perfect match and have been happily married for some years. I think sharing a very similar background, culture and religion can be a very good thing although of course there has to be plenty of attraction and love thrown into the mix too
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#709
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You spend time thinking about bowel movements. It’s a hobby these days
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^ You wonder when your bowel is going to move or not. I used to be regular as clockwork but now it has a mind of its own.
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^ aye the human digestive tract is a fickle madam
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#713
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Someone gave you a bottle of something alcoholic but unappealing and it has been sitting around for a year. You think of opening it, but then think, nah, it's not worth the calories if it's not going to taste nice. Wonder who I could offload it onto. And you wonder who you have become.
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When you follow the career of a sportsperson, (Busquets’ dad Carles, Barcelona ex-goalie and an absolute nutter of a player), and then follow the career of his more talented son. To add insult to injury the son is no spring chicken either.
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...you realise things are never going to get any better, that it's pretty much downhill from here. On tonight's news, they filmed inside an old people's home. Christ, it was so depressing. Each resident basically lives in one room, like some horrible, cheap hotel. And that's how all this miserable, pointless sh*t ends - sat alone in a small room waiting to die.
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^ Things don't have to be like that, society has to make the decision to change it.(None of my grandparents ended up living in a home, because they didn't want to and their wishes were respected.)
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#718
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^ we were told you'd died
Wtf FAKE NEWS! |
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