We have now been married for 29 years. My Mother passed before we started seeing each other and my Father passed a few months after we were married. Early on in the marriage she said that if we ever divorced, I got custody of her parents. They are both now 85 and in declining health. I have known and been around them more than I was my own parents; but in a far different dynamic. While there is a greater degree of separation with her parents than with my own, the pain will still be there.
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