So many will understand how you feel
@Dutchman
Trouble is, it’s such a lonely existence.
We are a couple, but not a couple.
It’s so hard having to do everything yourself, when you have shared your life together until this awful disease took them.
I remember when my Mom was diagnosed with cancer and it felt like something so very alien was eating her slowly. Now, so many cancers can be treated, but there is no treatment for dementia.
I now think of it as something slowly consuming my husband. It’s as if it’s eating all the happy, loving, caring, considerate parts of him, leaving me with the unpleasant bits. What makes it even worse is that he hosts so well, and family and friends never see what I see.
I can understand why you feel life would be better on your own, it would be a relief.
I am not in that position yet, but I know it will come, and I lie in bed wondering how I will cope.
Who has stolen my husband? I don’t know.... but life can be so cruel.
B xx