Diane met Joe, an engineer from a l

Diane met Joe, an engineer from a local company; she married him 3 months later. Joe was an average guy, he was not abusive, but he was a man of few words. Diane spent the next 15 years feeling isolated and miserable and, although she did not work, she never did anything to become self-sufficient or to improve herself. She never worked on repairing the relationships with her children. One day, Joe had a heart attack and died leaving her with only a car and a mortgage. At the age of 53, Diane was forced to sell the house, rent an apartment, and look for a job. She tried calling her kids for help but none of them would help her. She worked odd jobs and grew more and more bitter. A couple years later, Diane died from lung cancer; she had smoked cigarettes for 35 years.