I'm sorry to hear things are going like that, Wildman. It happens too often to think that it won't happen in your family.

Splitting up a couple after 32 years into different living quarters is bad enough (but sometimes it has to happen), but moving them hundreds of miles apart so they'll probably never see each other again is appalling. May I assume that the ones who want the properties and the ones who want to separate them are the same people? I would bet a nickel that their plan is a property-control issue, not a desire to have their father near to take care of him.

An example of the vultures in my family: my father's sister was visiting my parents when my father died in the hospital. My mother got the call, and within fifteen minutes Auntie Dearest was suggesting going through his stuff so she could get anything of value.

Another situation that you shouldn't think won't happen to you.

Sue