Many questions that arise these days were never even contemplated when my parents were alive. And if they were still alive Mother would be 100 and Father 99.
A recent post from Winsomebella posed such a question. What to wear to a family gathering when your ex husband’s new wife/partner/lover is also to be there. Well of course, when my parents were young divorce was never spoken of. In the years of my childhood we only knew one divorced woman and she eventually married an uncle much to the dismay of the rest of the family. I am sure that my mother only welcomed them into our house to annoy the other family members.
And of course the other side to Winsombella’s question – what to wear if you are the new wife/partner/lover and about to meet your new love’s family at a family gathering, en masse and maybe for the first time. I suggest that this person has the bigger problem. I can imagine the hours of contemplation given to what to wear. In all probability the family are on the side of the ex-wife and they may be critical of this person, maybe even blaming her for the break-up of the marriage.
And if she was indeed the reason for the marriage disintegrating well…Although I must say here, that this person could not have been the reason. She may well have been the impetus or maybe even the catalyst, but any marriage that ends in divorce must surely have some problems prior to another party coming onto the scene. As an aside – I am in no way an expert on the question of divorce. I was one of the lucky ones. My marriage lasted for 41 years until the death of my husband. So these comments are my own and made from watching other marriages wither and die.
But back to the question, and it probably applies equally to men or women. Our blogging friend Winsomebella has reached the stage in life where she knows and likes herself and we look forward to a post on the baptism complete with photographs of this lovely, serene grandmother.
I have yet another book to introduce to you. It is “365 Reflections on Grandmothers”. More on this book in another post but for now, to our blogging friend Winsomebella I give her this quote:
“Grandmothers don’t have to do anything,
except be there”. Patsy Gray
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