Xchel
Active Member
I imagine is must be very difficult to deal with someone you love who has advanced Alzheimers, particularly if your partner no longer even knows who you are.
Now imagine that you're still healthy, still mentally alert and still ready for life, but your former loved one is no longer even there mentally.
Think about spending the last couple decades of your life married to somebody who is drooling, in a constant state of confusion and anxiety, and completely unmanagable. The person still looks like somebody you once loved, but that person really no longer exists.
Is divorce under those circumstances really such a bad thing?
People divorce for far less significant reasons than that, don't they?
yes it really is a bad thing....since when does love only exist when the person is healthy? what kind of low life abandons their partner who has been dedicated to them their entire life when they become ill? I can understand divorce for abuse or for infidelity but not for alzheimers...what kind of scum bag abandons a partner for either cancer or other serious illnesses? And who would want to marry someone like that?