#429 - The Truth About Midlife Grief
Wife of the Party
Berty Boy Productions
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The first time I started getting the yearly check, |
| 0:03.2 | she had me get completely naked, right? |
| 0:06.0 | And when I took my gown off, she went, whoa, |
| 0:09.3 | that's a lot of sun damage. |
| 0:11.0 | And I went, that's not really what I want to hear. |
| 0:13.2 | And she goes, I'm sorry, it's just like, |
| 0:14.8 | you have significant sun damage. |
| 0:16.9 | I mean, we just peel our skin off. |
| 0:18.8 | Oh, peel it in sheets. |
| 0:20.3 | Sheets. And that was awesome. So a year ago when we were like trying to figure out what we were going to do, because we were like, you may need this a little closer to you. Something has to happen. Like, we have to do something. Yeah. So, like, a decision has to be made. So we were just not |
| 0:38.3 | ready to pull the trigger yet. And it was like, we saw it literally a year ago because I remember I was like, we're about to go to Boston for the last two weeks, like Elijah's last two lacrosse games, graduation. We can't do anything right now because their realtor was like, just make an offer. They live in Argentina. They're ready to be done. |
| 0:53.5 | And we were like, we just can't. |
| 0:55.1 | Nothing like this can happen. We haven't even sold our house. |
| 0:56.8 | We can't do anything. |
| 0:57.8 | Well, pause. just make an offer. They live in Argentina. They're ready to be done. And we were like, we just |
| 0:54.7 | can't. Nothing like this can happen. We haven't even sold our house. We can't do anything. |
| 0:57.8 | Well, pause. Before you continue for people listening, your husband got laid off. Like many men, |
| 1:04.8 | many husbands in our age group got laid off. And you guys had like a, as I understand it, a little writing on the wall moment where you had to decide to sell your home that you'd been in for, raise your kids in. Almost 20 years. Didn't want to sell it. Did not. But had to make that tough decision. Did that, rented a house. And now you've bought another house. And now you're telling us that story. I'm so excited! |
| 1:28.0 | So yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | So anyways, we went to graduation. I was like just be in the moment. Don't think about it. But I kept it as an open tab on my phone, this house. And then I noticed that it had been taken off the market, like a few weeks later. And I called our real attorney and she's like, yeah, the owners decided to hold on to it for another year. So I just kept looking at it. |
| 1:46.1 | And then I looked at Darwin and I'm like |
| 1:48.1 | that house is back on the market and we went back and looked at it and it just feels really right like |
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