Then he went to a physical rehabilitation center for a month. He was sent home with me, despite him being unable to sit up in bed without assistance. I tried to take care of him at for two months, injuring myself a few times in the process…

But stroke recovery doesn’t always happen the way we want it to. The stroke had left him paralyzed on his right side, unable to read and write, and unable to understand numbers. I made sure I saw him every day so he knew he wasn’t alone in…

Then he had the stroke. The day that it happened was the worst day of my life. I watched the person I loved the most almost die. No matter how angry you are at someone you love, all that anger vanishes when you see their life fade in your …

They also didn’t know that a few months before the stroke, he’d had a bad accident at home because of his drinking. After that, I gave him an ultimatum: join a recovery group for your drinking or I can’t stay with you and watch this keep h…

I loved my husband and he was my best friend. But he also had a serious drinking problem. It was probably my fault for trying to give him privacy (which I now realize enabled him), but not many people knew about how bad it had gotten and h…