Today I asked Alan to put out the bin for collection. I said "it's the green bin today". He said "o.k. fine". So he puts out the brown bin. I said "what colour are everyone else's bins?". He said "green". I said "what colour is our bin?" He said "I don't know why they do it to us. Why do we have a brown bin?" I said "we have a green bin up there but you put the wrong one out".
Alan just didn't get it. I remembered what had been posted by other people and I walked away because I was getting really frustrated because, at that moment, I still believed that it was really simple to resolve. I still find myself not accepting that it's the illness rather than me not explaining things properly. Still in some ways I'm glad that I still do try to explain things to him because it must be horrible when one gives up. I'll cross that bridge if we get to it.
Love to you all
Helen
Alan just didn't get it. I remembered what had been posted by other people and I walked away because I was getting really frustrated because, at that moment, I still believed that it was really simple to resolve. I still find myself not accepting that it's the illness rather than me not explaining things properly. Still in some ways I'm glad that I still do try to explain things to him because it must be horrible when one gives up. I'll cross that bridge if we get to it.
Love to you all
Helen