I'm an older guy; I don't look anywhere near as old as I really am, but I'm in my mid fifties. I'm active and healthy, and haven't' succumbed to "middle age spread". I'm also the "Handy" guy in the neighborhood. I used to have an old schoolmarm living next door, but she finally moved out and a new neighbor moved in. She was mid thirties, and she had a daughter that was nineteen.
At first it was OK, we spoke rarely and the daughter ignored my existence, not really surprising, she was two generations off. I was all alone here as my kids had gone off to college and my wife had decided to trade me in on two twenty something's, but I was over that.
We had gone through her mid-life crises a few years earlier, and then we got ourselves back together, and I thought we were OK again, but when I won a small lottery, she took half and split like it was the normal thing to do. I simply took precautions financially and had her served with divorce papers as soon as possible. I also took the precaution of having a private eye get incriminating pics and tapes of her before we were officially separated. He wanted to show them to me and I left them sealed up, with no desire to see the proof unless she made it necessary.
No real bitterness; I wasn't surprised after her first mid life crises, and let her go without a fight, and without looking back. I had expended all the emotion and energy I could afford working us through the first crises; I had nothing left for the second.
My half of the lottery allowed me to retire comfortably, and for my kids to pick almost any school they could qualify for, with a little left for a place in the mountains, and that was enough for me.
I first started wondering what was with the woman next door when she would come over at odd hours to ask favors. Borrowing something, asking me to look at her car, her drain, her TV...
The questions were not what was weird, the timing was. Very early in the AM, or very late at night. It was a good thing I was an early riser, because the first time she came over at 6:15 am, I could not believe it.
Then it got weirder. She got into "hobby" mode. Always something I knew at least a little something about too. She got into making fine filigree work on scroll saws (I'm an amateur wood worker), she got into camping, she took up archery... I simply tried to answer her questions and deal with her eccentricities. She didn't seem to be an airhead, but something was very different with her.