When Joe Met Brayden--get your Kleenex handy.

[nolabear]

16. I was married to a man who stuttered before I married Mr Bear.

He was a brilliant man, we just couldn’t be married for many reasons. But being with him, feeling myself tighten when he tightened, sometimes doing things like ordering at restaurants when he just didn’t want to go through the stares and embarrassment others felt, and that damned phone! I know all Joe’s tricks and tells, the hard consonants he avoids, the introductory phrases, the wraparounds when he knows a word is coming up that will challenge him. People who go out in public and make the kind of effort we who don’t stutter never even think of are absolutely amazing. What Joe did for Brayden and what the two of them are doing for others is downright noble.