Hi everyone, I am so glad I found this site, I hope it will help me understand what's going on. My mother in law has dementia, it started 18 months ago and it was left to me to get her help. She was wandering the streets at night holding her purse in her hand for anyone to take, walking in the road, the list goes on! I had to fight the doctors to the end for them to take me seriously, they kept trying to give her antidepressants and send her away, I knew it was more serious. My mother in law is divorced and only has 1 child-my husband-. To help protect him from the ilness I took on all of her care as well as looking after my 2 young children (1 and 3 years) and holding down 2 jobs and I am only 25 myself. She is now in our local hospital as it took it's toll and I ended up depressed and could no longer cope anymore. My problem now is that my husband is not coping with her illness at all and is so moody and won't talk to me, it's affecting our relationship and I am scared we won't be able to keep it together. He rarely sees his mum as it upsets him so much. He has no one else to talk to that understands as he has no brothers or sisters and his dad is now in a long term relationship with someone else. I don't know what to do