DEAR ABBY: My parents were married for 50 years. My dad remarried a nice lady a year after Mom died. Within two months of meeting her, they were engaged.
Dad made more than a few missteps, including announcing the engagement on Facebook before informing Mom’s sister, inviting the new wife to Mom’s delayed out-of-town memorial service, bragging about his “child bride” (she’s 72, and he’s 82) to the priest at my nephew’s hospice death bed, ignoring Mom’s wishes to have her ashes placed in a sectarian columbarium rather than scattered in her favorite state park, and other actions that felt like a slap in our faces and disrespect for Mom’s memory. I’ve had therapy over this.
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