Originally Posted by jierbe31

Hello,

To answer your question, we’ve been married for ten years only. We took our time and carefully thought it over. I had never told you, which surprises me. Unfortunately, we took the decision due to my illness. I really wanted David to own everything we got together in case something happened to me. So we got married and agreed on a “universal” marriage contract. Since we had no children and couldn’t have any, I wished there was no problem at the time of a possible succession. This is not macabre, Catherine, it is just common sense. I have the recent example of a friend of mine who’s lost her father; she and her brother aren’t claiming anything but one of her sisters imposes on their widowed mother that she sell all her belongings so that she can get her share of the inheritance.
Never would my friend have thought her sister could behave in such a way.
In our case with David, the eligible party were his brothers. Although we are on good terms, I don’t want him to have any problem with them. From now on I am in remission but you see my health problems get moving again. Next week I’ll be subject to biopsies of the suprarenals following a worrying analysis that was delivered yesterday. Without telling you more, protecting my husband is my priority. Nevertheless we’ve made wills in favour of all our nephews and nieces and those to be born. The young ones may need them when we are gone.

Yesterday evening, my friends from Paris and Le Havre came home. Every one of them had brought a dish, a dessert. David had seen to the drinks.
We had a nice evening, talked a lot about current events then, less seriously, about ourselves.
David had organized their accommodation, some of them were put up at David’s parents, others at friends of ours who have a house. This morning we had breakfast together with squashed oranges, buns, croissants, brioches and fresh baguette. At noon I’ll have no lunch. Our Parisian friends are going back in the afternoon. We hope the weather will clear up to have a walk along the seaside.
I spent an excellent evening and a delicious morning.
Love,
Marie-Paule