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People in dark places don't like others walking into the light is what I often see @alt80. Keep going, you know what's right for you and loved ones Humdinger x
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If its any consolation I find the older I get the less I worry about what others think. Live for yourself and your family. The rest dont matter.
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Just quickly caught up on your diary and pleased you seem to be doing so well and your wife sounds like a different character altogether from a few years back. What a transformation for you both in terms of finances, attitude and hopefully health. Pleased you are managing to get some travel plans in with your parents too. I also note you are enjoying travel now which is a change from years back. We travel a lot while we are still fit enough to do it being quite a few years older than you. This year we have China, Spain and a Danube cruise through Hungary, Slovakia and Austria to look forward to.
As @ladyholly says I would not worry what others think of you and the way you live your life now.
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Fully agree with this.
Live your life for you and your family not for what others think.
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That cruise sounds nice.
From the parts of the Danube we have seen on our travels it looks lovely.
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It's not sad. If you wouldn't ask some people for advice, why would you consider their unsolicited opinions influential?
Your life now is safer and more fulfilling for your family. You and your wife and your son are better off then you ever were.
Other people...meh, they are welcome to think what they like, we all do. Sing the Fozen song when you think of their opinions ("let it gooo" ;) )
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