We also have a blended family in various locations; Will’s sister is in Batavia , IL (lives the closest and his only sibling), a divorcee with no children, who is content in her expensive senior home with a 5 o’clock Happy-Hour and and has detached herself completely from Will’s health issues (what health issues?)
His only 2 sons are in Texas and North Carolina and they really love their Dad, but not enough to take him into their homes if something happened to me. They would put Will into a Memory Home and hardly see him, but call like they do now. My only 2 sons who live near us would do the same, and visit Will from
time to time.
My only sibling, a younger brother and his wife, are very loving people near our age but have their own health issues. Most of our relatives are very supportive and full of love for us but they have their own issues, whether health-wise or other obligations. And life goes on for them, and that’s all that matters.
Years ago, I met a very nice man from Greece. He told me when he gets old, he’s going back to Greece, because people here do not take care of their older relatives, but in Greece, they do. Now what does that say about us as a country? There are people from other countries living here together in one home, with Grandparents and sons and daughters and great grandchildren, all together helping one another survive - very loving, very happy, very family-oriented and very religious, the way this country should be. Maybe even used to be. How very sad!