What were your parents doing at your age?
My Dad was an Osteopathic physician who practiced medicine in metro Detroit area and who retired early. My Mom was a stay at home wife who was involved in the community. We left Detroit and moved up north in my parents in their forties.
When they were my age of 64 with still have lots of energy, they opened up an antique shop in an old service building and perennial gardens plus built a custom farmhouse with a huge covered front porch like those constructed decades before. I believe that their marriage may have been one of happiest years in that house.
Honestly, my parents wanted the world to see that their marriage was good but the appearances were a big lie. From those lies, they lost friends that they had hoped to be around for the rest of their lives. My Dad had continuous affairs and refused to stop. To protect his career and his reputation, he built each of the custom homes to stop my Mom from walking out each time. They were built when she wanted to leave each time.
Oddly enough, I’ll be moving back to the small town in up north Michigan where I can do my own drive by tour of the homes and live my own life. The homes will be part of the conversation with people who I know.
Happy Friday the Thirteenth,
Leslie Elizabeth David.
The Magnificent Modern Mature Woman 