Alzheimer... - Page 3

Originally posted by: DulceTentacion.

No. Yes there may be times when you are frustrated and scared out of your wits but when you are in a relationship you embrace your partner's flaws as well as goods. In this case, you are in a relationship with your spouse for quite a number of years and now that your partner is suffering from Alzheimer you will go cry in a corner out of frustration and go the easy way and sign up for divorce? I believe in commitment, if my spouse does happen to be in a situation where he is suffering from Alzheimer then I will take life as it comes and go with flow, yes there will be difficulties, but leaving a loved one in agony is not something I stand up for. I guess one has to have a great deal of inner strength to deal with a situation as that of Alzheimer. I cannot say that I will be able to handle the situation with a depth of positivity, there will be pain and suffering to know that when you look into the eyes of a loved one, they will not recognise you, but despite that divorcing a spouse based on the foundations of a medical condition goes against my beliefs.

Very well put, but does divorce always mean that your abandoning the person? I believe you can still take care of your loved one who suffers from alzheimer...

Originally posted by: -Aarya-

Very well put, but does divorce always mean that your abandoning the person? I believe you can still take care of your loved one who suffers from alzheimer...

Originally posted by: Star_on_earth

its just that i havent really heard of it before... so i am not sure if it is actually possible...i thought both the eyes go together...

Originally posted by: -Aarya-

Very well put, but does divorce always mean that your abandoning the person? I believe you can still take care of your loved one who suffers from alzheimer...

Well Arya divorce may not always mean abondoning the partner but thaat is what it usually is otherwise why would one consider divorce in the first place and that too at a time when the partner needs you the most? if it is to marry someone else then you can very well imagine the difficulties or taking care of someone with alzeimer while trying to take care of your new wife or husband.

Love between two individuals , a husband wife , lovers, sibling , friend etc etc Commitment to the relationship matters when it comes to decisions like these... It is not humanly possible for anyone to feel love for another every second of your life... very much in love , still there are times or situations where one just lives with the people normally , fight , argue , just remain friendly , helpful... etc
With this disease ... life would me more of such "not pure love" moments ... but will be other moments depending on the level and type of commitment towards that person.

Originally posted by: zorrro

Well Arya divorce may not always mean abondoning the partner but thaat is what it usually is otherwise why would one consider divorce in the first place and that too at a time when the partner needs you the most? if it is to marry someone else then you can very well imagine the difficulties or taking care of someone with alzeimer while trying to take care of your new wife or husband.

And what if your spouse who is suffering from Alzheimer finds someone else while you are still faithful ...

Originally posted by: -Aarya-

@Angel-likeDevil...It's easier said than done! The Beautiful Mind, indeed was a great movie, but I had always wondered that with out Nash's madness, could he have been only another of the millions of people who have lived and then been forgotten and did his ability to penetrate the most difficult reaches of mathematical thought somehow come with a price attached...

No, no..I'm not talking about Nash's achievements. My objective of pointing at A Beautiful Mind was to highlight how Nash's wife never left his side inspite of being a danger to herself and their child :)

The practitality of the situation is not about the right or wrong, good or bad because there are no right, wrong, good, bad, or easy answers available when confronting such a scourge. It only comes with grief, pain, disaster, and expense. I speak for humanity over rigid rules that has been established when people rarely lived long enough to face this tradegy and dilemma. It all comes down to the spouse we married and lived with for years no longer exists except in body...