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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:01 PM Original message |
Divorce Risk Higher When Illness Strikes Wife. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
1. What's good enough for Newt Gingrich is good enough for everyone else |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. There's a certain kind of man |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Thats certainly part of it. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Not only that, but their whole focus seems to be to fix things |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Just remembering heard this some time ago: |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. For a couple of years I was visiting an Alzheimer's caregiver forum a lot, and was struck |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I've wondered if this will be any different in a generation or two. Will our society |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:23 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Tho my mother didn't have alz but dementia and unrelated physical ailments, |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Happy bday to Dad! |
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enough (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 05:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. It wouldn't surprise me if his willingness to be nurturing during her hard times |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Thanks for your thoughts about my great Dad! |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I think about what our society would think if their roles were reversed. |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. She didn't do it, either. She was immunocompromised because of the chemo. |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-13-09 09:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. good on you for doing that |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. i saw this too, it's pretty disturbing |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. when my mother was disabled by a stroke |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. I do have to say as others have here, this is not true in every case. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. i know there are many men who |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. When my mom had a stroke, my brother and one of my sisters both |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. my mother was never to drive or work again |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I'm sorry to hear that. Something like that happened to my grandfather. |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. warriors must resist contemplating their own mortality. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. In praise of my brother |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. obviously there are tender hearted ones out there. |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-13-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. when needed or asked most men do rise to the occasion- but attitudes like yours prevent this from |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-13-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. way to put your head in the sand. |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-13-09 05:25 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. LOL, you're the romantic fatalist with the limiting attitudes , and they are BS. Many people never |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-14-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. so, you don't think there is any such thing as human nature? |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. thanks for posting this; I am glad they did a full study than just rely on anecdotes. |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
21. Yep. I was ditched when I developed severe depression |
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Cybergata (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
22. I'm not surprised. |
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nickinSTL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. my mom has a number of problems |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-13-09 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
30. I once attended a memorial service for a woman who had died of breast cancer |
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