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I agree they did not have good communication. She had her own secrets, but her secret keeping increased after Rich started walking on egg shells after her last miscarriage.
I hadn’t thought about the age difference, but I agree that probably influenced Rich. Definitely, yes the time period played a part. But I was a young woman (younger than Colleen) in a relationship with a man 12 years older than I in 1977. I don’t think I would have forgiven him for spending our life savings without so much as a word about it.