health and fitness: My mum is buying a home with a new boyfriend

vendredi 25 mars 2016

My mum is buying a home with a new boyfriend – but she barely knows him

My recently retired mum is leaving all her friends and family to throw her finances and emotions into a relationship that is only six months old. I fear she is living in a fantasy, but she won’t take any advice

My mum, recently retired, was dumped by a man last summer after a decade together. She was devastated. In the autumn, she met a man online, and now they are selling their houses and buying a rural idyll 90 miles away from her family. I’ve just had a baby and a relationship breakup. She is the main carer for my sister, and shares caring responsibility for my disabled grandma. She says she will drive down once a week to spend a few hours with us all.

I’ve tried to advise caution. Although her new chap is lovely, solvent and agreeable, she barely knows him and to be throwing her finances (shaky at best) and emotions into a relationship that is only six months old seems to me, and the rest of her friends and family, to be madness.