r/BestOf | My Wife Just Abandoned Me And Is Spending All Our Savings To "Find Herself" (UPDATE)
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🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:19.0 | this pot okay with that being said thank. Let's get into the episode. |
| 0:22.6 | What would you do if all of a sudden your wife ran off without telling you, |
| 0:26.8 | completely abandoning you, taking all of your money to go and find herself? |
| 0:32.3 | Well, unbelievably, that is exactly what happened to this poor man in this story. |
| 0:38.0 | This post originally came from R. slash True off my chest, |
| 0:41.0 | but of course there are a couple of juicy updates. This is R slash Best. off my 50-year-oldeighness |
| 0:44.1 | is our slash best of here we go |
| 0:46.4 | my 50-year-old male wife 48-year-old female |
| 0:50.4 | abandoned me two months ago to find herself. Now this was originally posted on October the 27th, |
| 0:57.0 | 2023. My wife Mary's family has a history of dementia, developing memory issues in their mid to late 50s. |
| 1:04.6 | Her mom, grandmother, and several other relatives on her mom's side have developed dementia. |
| 1:09.9 | Her mom lived with us for four years until earlier this year. Father is dead. |
| 1:14.8 | Our kids are independent and out of the house. |
| 1:17.2 | Our oldest is in her last semester of college and the younger enlisted. |
| 1:20.9 | The last four years were tough on us, our kids, daughter moved for college but moved back for a bit during COVID, and our marriage. Living with someone with dementia is brutal. We had talked a lot the last year about taking the remaining college funds, |
| 1:35.9 | our regular savings, sell or rent the house, we were ready to downsize anyway, quit our jobs and |
| 1:41.4 | travel for a year or until the money runs out. We just had to wait for her mom to move into our home. |
| 1:47.8 | Now I understand her anxiety about developing dementia and I was burned out. |
| 1:52.9 | You live through COVID working remote, |
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