My mom live with me, but left after 2 years Because of Was Too Boring

Be my bold, free-spirited Mother reasher her mid-70s, she finds maintaking her home in florida alone had Become too expensive and demanding. My sister live in a nearby Town, but was busy with her her family and wasn’t able to be there as much as mom needed.

“Come Live with us, mom. It will be relaxing and peaceful,” I offended.

SO, IN 2020, at the age of 76, my mom relacated from Florida to my home in upstate new york, Bringing her dogs and her samp possessions, with the intention of golden years with my two Youngest daughters and me. We had Always Gotten Along Well and Expectted This to Be the Perfect Solution.

Having Her with US WAS WONDERFUL AT FIRST

At first, it was delightful. We were happy to spend so much time together after she had been living so far away for many years. She had Moved From New York to Florida Over 30 Years Earlier and Had Also Moved Alone to the Dominican Republic and THEN TO COSTA RICA IN HER 60S FOR A FEW YEARS, JUST FOR the adventure.

Meanwhile, I find it stressful just to go to a new Grocery Store. We Should Have Known. Although we have a lot in Common – we love Creating and Growing Things, Enjoy Sitting Alone Reading for Hours, She Likes Cooking, I Like Baking – Living in Separate for Most of My Life Masked Our Differences.

We realized how different we are

My mom is Gregarious and Sociable, and Has Many Friends. I am the opposite. I am single, Live in the Woods, work from home for 10 hours a day, and have fewer than a handful of friends with socialization. Together, we occasionally ventured out to the farmers market, to a café for lunch, went thrift shopping, and sold handmade goods at a local laundry in the summer-mom knitted and hand-sewed tos to benef Kep with Home Much of the Time.

My mom discovered too late i am a way too too too. She was used to managing every aspect of her world world, Independent Woman she is, and Suddenly Found Herself AFTER A LONG WINTER LIKE LIKE PENNYWORTH IN BATMAN’S CAVE.

She did have Friends here, as she lived in new York for Many Years, but it was nothing like busy social life in florida. She did have more time to enjoy things she love, like knitting, cooking, Watching History Shows, and Shopping with Her Closest Once a Week.

She Also Discovered Some New Joys Here, Including Listening to My Daughters Sing As they Got Ready for School, Hearing Geese Honk Overhead to their Arrivals and Departures, and Laugding with the “Girls Girls” on TV. But when the most interesting things she was accompishing were counting the number of Bird species that came to her her feeder and sitting in her room knitting for hours day, my mother know something to have to change.

Mom Decide to Move Back to Florida Out of Boredom

Eventually, mom decidied she was too too and bored to stay. SINCE She had come to live with me, Her life had Become too small and quiet for her comfort or happiness. She look around at her newly shrunken life and realized that she had suddenly become an Old Lady! My Fiercely Independent Mother Cannot be contained and restored in this way.

My mom deciding to the Move Back to Florida after A Two-Yaar Stint. She is now 81 and living in a small mobile home on my sister’s Property, where she is happy socializes with her friends, pet-sits, crares art, and tars of her dogs and chickens.

She dyscovered that although she no Longer wants the respectibilities and demands of her own house and Proppery, she’s backpiest living alone in time space, with Support Close by, but not in the Next Room. And she wouldn’t Mind Someday Dying of Old Age, but dying of boredom is out of the Question.