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The Rest Is Best
By Lorna Foreman
Change, Challenges
and a Favourite Chair
The give and take of
combining households
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July/August 2008 • Ottawa 4 • Fifty-Five Plus Magazine
chair cannot and will not
go,”he says with a determined
“That
voice.“I have sat and read in it
for over 25 years and some of my best
ideas were hatched there. It’s staying.”
“But it doesn’t match the rest of our
furniture,” she responds with equal
determination.
Ah, the joys of combining households.
When you are in your early 20s,
just finished university or college, you
haven’t accumulated as much “stuff”and
when you form a permanent relationship
at that point in your life it is usually
one that does not come with a lot of furniture
— or at least nice furniture. (Ah
yes, that wonderful word “stuff.”) When
you are older, perhaps entering into a
second marriage or long-term relationship,
it becomes an amazing undertaking:
one that can present all sorts of
problems if you let it.After all, it was his
chair and it has a right to be kept.A flip
of the coin can determine which toaster
stays but there are some more important
items to be considered.
So what does one do? I have talked
about this a lot with friends, some of
whom have gone through the experience.It
turns out that there is a variety of
scenarios.
It is, it seems, usually the woman
who does all the decorating in a house.
Usually,but not the rule.My late husband
told me to go ahead and paint the living
room any colour I wanted.Well, being a
fair-minded person, I brought home as
many paint chips as my conscience
would allow and sat down one evening
to go over them. To make a long story
short, it turned out that he would go
along with any colour…as long as it was