ONE LOVE STORY

It Started Like Love Story, Then Everyone Said They Were Sorry.

A nice man and nice lady met and became a nice couple.

When they got married they were nice newly weds.

They were nice parents when they had kids.

A great family in the making, then things changed.

One of the parents needed more, so they started searching for more.

The more they found excluded their partner and kids.

More isolation, more relocation, more satisfaction. It was more than ever.

The deserted parent stayed put, raised the kids, moved on. One of the kids went the other direction.

Who ever understands when parents split up, when one disappears from day to day life. Sure it wasn’t their fault, but try explaining that to someone who knows it was their fault.

When is it ever a kid’s fault?

From a bright angel to shelter house, one of the kids grew into the cloud that surrounded them. Even into their twenties they stayed around ten years old.

One day online they found a sympathetic poster. They seemed nice enough, and near by.

Once they met the relationship leaped forward. In what seemed like the time it takes to snap your fingers a baby was on the way, except babies couldn’t live in the shelter.

Right after the baby was born, it was given up to be raised by a relative.

Things went back to normal, or what passed for normal.

On a normal day an accident took the young woman’s life. From normal kid to heavily medicated patient living in a shelter, to birthing a child, the circle of life ended.

The parent seeking more in their life found it in a grandchild, but lost their own. The other parent took the loss as a tragedy.

A short time later they went on a hunting trip alone. In the middle of nowhere they found their prey and shot it.

After they were reported missing, the search started. Authorities found a car resembling one described, then found the other parent after a forest search.

At the memorial someone quietly said, “I’d be right there if it weren’t for my kids.”

Keep this family story in mind when you see baby boomer parents, and grandparents. Those golden years of life’s celebration are waiting, but not everyone joins in.

If you know empty nesters struggling with their new role, be kind. Not everyone is overjoyed at being left behind, even if they know it’s part of life.

It’s just not part of a life they want to live. And they’re running out of choices.