She has had a rough few years and if now is the end of it, I wish her peace. What I simply don’t understand is why she and her “longtime partner” never married.
We know two couples that are both long-time partners that will never marry.
One could has been together 18 years and she would lose nearly 250K/yr in alimony if she married. Oddly enough her partner is quite wealthy himself. At first, we thought that her ex, who left her for a younger woman, had really ticked her off.
Then we learned that she was a visitor to the emergency room nearly every other month with injuries from "fall(s)".
Another couple, who's spouses both died and they meet during hospital visits, will never marry because their children, both his and hers, raised such a stink over the prospect of losing their inheritance(s) to "that golddigger who is only after our, um, your money."