US EditionDear Abby: Couple Spends 8 Years Living in Separate Houses. What Happens when They Decide to Merge?
The couple preserves stability for their children by maintaining separate homes, citing emotional ties and ongoing college transitions, after dating for eight years.
- Recently, a widow wrote that she has dated a widower partner for eight years and they keep separate homes to avoid distress to their children.
- His large family home is filled with the deceased wife's belongings, and she says she could never make it her home because they raised their daughter there.
- They considered selling both houses and buying something together but doubted they could find anything comparable, and one child who moved back makes moving impractical.
- With family logistics complicating matters, the advice was for her to have an honest conversation and voice fears that changes would be resented, the columnist suggested.
- The column is written by Abigail Van Buren , Dear Abby columnist, founded by Pauline Phillips, with contact at www.DearAbby.com and P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Dear Abby: Couple spends 8 years living in separate houses. What happens when they decide to merge?
DEAR ABBY: I am a widow who has been dating a widower for the past eight years. He’s a wonderful man and the love of my life. We both have children, so we have been extremely careful not to cause them any distress with our relationship, and we have kept our home lives pretty separate.
Dear Abby: A widowed couple faces a future shaped by two pasts
Dear Abby: I am a widow who has been dating a widower for the past eight years. He’s a wonderful man and the love of my life. We both have children, so we have been extremely careful not to cause them any distress with our relationship, and we have kept our home lives pretty separate. At first, I thought that when the kids graduated from high school, we would maybe change our living situation, but now with all of our kids in college, the kids ar…
Dear Abby: One couple, two homes, future unclear
Dear Abby: I am a widow who has been dating a widower for the past eight years. He’s a wonderful man and the love of my life. We both have children, so we have been extremely careful not to cause them any distress with our relationship, and we have kept our home lives pretty separate. At first, I thought that when the kids graduated from high school, we would maybe change our living situation, but now with all of our kids in college, the kids ar…
Charleston Gazette-Mail
Dear Abby: Couple still maintain two homes after years together
Dear Abby: I am a widow who has been dating a widower for the past eight years. He's a wonderful man and the love of my life. We both have children, so we have been careful not to cause them…
Abby: Couple still maintain two homes after years together
DEAR ABBY: I am a widow who has been dating a widower for the past eight years. He’s a wonderful man and the love of my life. We both have children, so we have been extremely careful not to cause…
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