The New Alone
By Cafe on Jan 29, 2008 in Baby Boomer, Elizabeth Marquardt | comments(0)
Because we boomers are more active and live longer, we can plan for the best. But we also have to know when to plan for the worst. That’s what author Elizabeth Marquardt recently wrote about for The Washington Post. She has given BoomerCafé permission to reprint the piece. Marquardt calls the era for which we must also plan, “The New Alone.”
Not long ago, I had dinner with a friend whose mother had recently remarried, to a man who had never had any children. Though she was happy for her mother, my friend also found herself bothered by a thought she couldn’t shake. If her mother were to die before the new husband, she wondered, would she herself be expected to care for this man she barely knew?
My friend isn’t alone in her uncertainty.
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