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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question: If you got married but then your spouse got ill with an incurable disease....is it understandable to leave that spouse in any capacity?

I do not want to judge because I have never had to deal with this myself but something that happened to a family member.

Basically you are in a lifetime sentence of caretaking and never being able to fully live out YOUR own life or the LIFE you imagine with a healthy spouse.

Any thoughts?[/quote]

Cancer survivor here, which means my odds of cancer again are increased.  It has always crossed my mind if men wouldn't marry me because they would be afraid of what the future would hold. I wouldn't be with someone who had any feelings like you are expressing, the "OMG I'd be a caretaker", like that's not the right mindset to have. You and your spouse take care of each in different throughout life, that's a marriage.  You love someone and marry someone in sickness and in health, not just health and then kick them to the curb.  [/quote]

From what I have seen of the  borderline or sometimes outright abusive treatment of caregivers, in sickness and in health is often used to justify horrific behavior to caregiver spouses. I don't believe it any more.[/quote]

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