How long did you have both of your parents still living? (grandmother, mother)

[hertfordshire]

I'm 42 ... Dad passed two months ago (he was 3 weeks shy of 80) and Mom is still with us (78). Given her diminishing cognitive capabilities, I expect she will only be with us a few more years.

[smpliving]

I will be 60 this year. I lost my dad at 17 due to a car accident that left him a quadriplegic for a few weeks before he died. My mother is 85 and still living, but we just put her in a memory care facility last month due to Alzheimer's. My mom was very physically healthy, walking 2-3 miles daily right up until she entered the facility. Once there, she fell and is now in a wheelchair recuperating. Her Alzheimer's has progressed remarkably since then.

[xPlorer48]

I am 68 and my parents are 87 and 89. One is in nursing home after a fall and the other lives in a condo. Tough German stock.

[Diane de Poitiers]

I will be 40 in a few years, and while my mom is still alive and well, my dad died when I was 7. (He was 36 at the time, and was killed in a car accident)

[Pfalz]

I'm 30. Both parents and all four grandparents are still around and living independently. I was 12 when I lost my last great-grandparent. There's also 5 step grandparents (step father's parents, step mother's parent's, and maternal grandmother remarried).

My wife is also 30 and also has both parents alive. She lost her last grandparent three years ago. None of her great-grandparents were alive when she was born.

[another_hot-day]

I was 32 when my Mom passed and 40 when my Dad passed.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

Here I am in an earlier post thinking how that this is not an issue because my parents are both still alive. We were in Arizona visiting them last week.

My wife on the other hand lost her mom when she was 9. She ended up living with her brother and sister in law who already had a couple kids and their own home. My wifes dad had left for Mexico and never came back. Turns out we found he had another family in Mexico. LOL

When my wife got to know her dad again he was living in Georgia where he has three sons. They would talk on the phone and we had planned a trip to visit. One day her brother called and told us that he was in the hospital with cancer and was not expected to live. My wife was able to fly out there but while on the plane he passed away. She went ahead and stayed for the funeral. We are now close to her three brothers and their families.

[Aery11]

Mom was 69 (and I was 36) when she died. Dad was 95 (and I was 62, nearly 63) when he died.

[jean_ji]

DH and I have both lost our fathers (82 and 92 years old) and still have our Mothers.. We are 63 and our moms are 86 and 90.

I worked with a 26 year old that had a baby and not one grandparent was still alive, they all died relatively young from illnesses and accidents. I realized how very lucky I was to have my parents for so long.

[seain dublin]

I lost my mom in 2012 and my dad one year and two weeks later in 2013. They had been married for 55 years when she passed. He never was the same after she was gone.

I was 50 when she went, miss them both.