What you're about to hear is an unscripted one-time couples counseling session.

It contains mature themes and listener discretion is advised.

For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics have been removed.

But their voices and their stories are real.

Among the top stressors in any couples relationship or family relationship is death and illness.

When you get married you think it's probably with you and thickness and in health and that's true that you picture being old.

I have early onset Parkinson's. I was diagnosed about a year ago.

This is a young couple. They're at the beginning of their life together. They have three young children.

And their entire life has begun to change.

More and faster that they can even get their head around.

I just feel so ill-acquist to handle something that I know is just going to keep getting worse.

So I know that communication is heart-for-me.

Between not being able to get a facial expression from him when we talk to this hiding stuff, I love him so much and I want to support him unconditionally.

But I'm angry and scared.

When I come home from work, there are some days when it's all I can do just to get in the door and not have to talk about anything.

I believe that she deserves better than that.

And the beauty of the request from the intake interview was not how should we deal with his illness.

It was her saying, how do we continue to experience ourselves as young, as beautiful, as vibrant, as loving, and as sexual?

I'm not ready to just not be dead. I still want us to experience a liveliness and vitality between the two of us. Please help.

This is where should we begin with us, Derrick Barraum.

I feel like we've been in survival mode for so long, fundamentally.

I think we have two different fears in life.

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