Children Learn Their 62-Year-Old Mom Is Seeing a Younger Man and Excluded Them from Her Will — Story of the Day
A 62-year-old woman starts dating a younger man and her children are outraged and demand she stop seeing him, but her response stuns them.
Gail Sutherland considered herself a happy woman until the day her husband of forty years, Darrel, came home and told her he wanted a divorce. Gail had married Darrel while she was still in college, and the couple shared three children.
“But I love you,” Gail whispered. “You’re my whole life!” Gail saw a flicker of guilt and pity in Darrel’s eyes and it made her angry.
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“It’s not that I don’t love you, Gail,” Darrel said. “It’s just that I’m in love with someone else, someone younger, and she makes me feel alive!”
“Alive!” Gail repeated. “So what do I make you feel? DEAD?” She pressed her hands to her still smooth cheeks. She was still slim, attractive, her mirror told her that!
“Old,” Darrel shouted. “You make me feel OLD! You’re always going on about grandchildren and retirement, and I’m too young for that, Gail! I want to live!”
Gail pressed tremulous fingers to her lips. “I’m 62, and you’re 65, Darrel, there’s nothing wrong with our age, or wanting grandchildren…”
Darrel shrugged. “Diana is 28, she is exciting and energetic and she makes me feel like a kid again. I need this Gail, but don’t worry, I’ll do right by you.”
And he did. Darrel split his considerable estate right down the middle which made Gail a very wealthy woman. She sat in her huge luxurious house, and the silence oppressed her.
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Her children had taken the divorce well, too well, Gail felt, and she knew they had accepted Darren’s new love. She couldn’t help feeling betrayed even though he knew deep down that it wasn’t fair of her.
“They love him,” she thought. “They want him to be happy, and they want me to be happy too!”
With so much time on her hands, Gail decided to go back to college and take a course in creative writing. She was by far the oldest student in the class but she quickly proved herself one of the best.
Her professor, a tall handsome man in his forties, encouraged her and told her she had a lot of talent. A few weeks after she started class, she ran into him at a local coffee shop, and the two started talking.
Wallace Campion was a charming man,...