My Aunt Came Down Friday

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to see my mom which is her sister, and to help both mom and dad out. She, my aunt, is seeing the exact same things that hubby and I are seeing which is, my parents are going to kill each other. It's horrible! She said she can feel the tension in the air and you could cut it with a knife. She feels like she's walking on egg shells. Oh how we understand?!! We've been helping them since mom had her stroke and we've seen it all!! Mom belittles dad over numerous things and dad is a slob and won't clean up after himself. No need to go into detail, just know they fight like idiots and of course they shouldn't but we've tried to help them work things out and it's worked for a day or two then it starts back up again. Grant you, mom is depressed for she's been through hell and hasn't come back yet for she has such a long long way to go and dad should just walk away instead of aggravating the situation even more but nooooo he stays and argues with her which causes her blood pressure to go up and could cause her to have another stroke. Mom argues with dad which causes his blood pressure to go up and could cause him to have a heart attack as well as his sugar to go up (diabetes). It's a no win situation and I truly believe they're going to kill one another and who ever goes first, the other will go soon after out of grief and guilt. I just wish I could get mom to come and stay with me for a little while to get away from dad and give dad time away from her but she gives one excuse after another why not to come. "Not tonight, maybe sometime next week I'll come and stay a few days" In my opinion, next week is too late. The fighting is going on now and they need time apart now but she won't come and I can't make her. So I've had to work on myself to prepare for the inevitable which is loosing them both very soon. I'm thinking of going to a funeral home to make arrangements in hoping to move their grave sites down here where they live now instead of their home town which is 4 hours away. Too far to pay for the funeral home to take them too for it would cost a fortune, something that we don't have. UGH!!