My goodness how I can identify with your post. My partner was diagnosed approx 3 1/2 years ago and it just gets worse and worse. I'm 20 years younger than him (I'm 56) and I just see these years of my life being lost to being a carer. Is that a horrible way to think of it, I don't know - he's not the person he was when I met him 17 years ago but I still love him. I get no help from his children, in fact only hindrance, they seem to see me as his personal unpaid carer, without a life of my own. We too used to travel, I've lived abroad in different places for many years. The only thing that keeps me going is my part time job but even that is becoming impossible - today I arrived home to a message from the cleaner to say my partner has got angry and sworn at him for one time too many and he's quitting!! I never heard my partner swear or see him get angry with anyone before the Alzheimer's. Truly the worst disease for the sufferer and the carer.
