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My father married this woman under the condition that they move to a warmer climate once he retires. He hates the city and has always been a country boy. He has his eye on Hot Springs, Arkansas. Well, Dad has been retired for nearly a year, but his wife keeps finding excuses for not moving away with him, all excuses that he is able to respond well too. When she says she wants to keep her job, he says that they need nurses in Arkansas. When she says she wants to take care of her grandchildren, he says that they have loving parents already. When she says that she would miss her children, he assures her that they can have a guest room for when they (and I) visit. When she says that there is nothing to do there, he says that all she ever does here is go to work, then church, then back home. Besides, he assures her, she would only be a few hours away from Dallas, St. Louis, and New Orleans. He is becoming aggrevated because he says that she never made plans for the move, and it seems that she thinks that she can talk him out of changing his mind. Dad says that, when he prepared for retirement 30 years ago, it was always his wish to move to a warmer part of the country, and he insists on moving–even without her. Would my father be just in divorcing her? What can be done to prevent this from happening?

PS: His wife is not my mother.