How Taking Care Of An Elderly Parent Affects Your Marriage
- By
Julia Austin
Corbis
How to get through it
Try to put yourself in your partner’s shoes. He has just raised a child (if not several), sent them off to college and had been looking forward to this time to travel, relax, socialize and have more sex with you. Caring for his elderly in-law steals all of that away from him—and he may have been looking forward to that for a very long time. He may have felt that his sanity and happiness was depending on it. Judge everything he does through that lens. And if he is a superhero, make sure he feels appreciated every day because I can promise you he is exhausted but still putting on a happy face for you.
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