I am sitting here sobbing on a Thursday morning because I am so grateful to all of you who have reached out to me. I have felt so alone and so sad and although I am surely not happy you can relate to my experiences, talking to others who are going through it does help. My parents don't even have a computer in their house, so my Mom couldn't come online, although I know she could do it if she tried. The biggest problem is I live 1200 miles away from them and so I can't engage in face-to-face conversations nearly enough. But I am going to call her and tell her what I've learned here. My parents marriage is in danger of ending over this because my father is done. They've been married almost 44 years.
I see the thank you portions at the bottom of the posts and I haven't figured out how to do that yet; but I do want to say thank you to all of you. You have no idea how much you have helped.
I figured out how to say thank you!! Hurrah!