When Marriage Starts Feeling Like Caregiving

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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David never expected his marriage to shift from partnership to full-time caregiving. As his wife’s health problems grow, he’s feeling emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure how to balance love, responsibility, and his own needs. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:26.3	David, welcome to the program.
0:29.3	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:31.0	Hi.
0:32.5	How can I help you?
0:35.2	So, me and my wife, we had been married for 30 years, uh, three years ago, almost to the day, uh, we had planned on going to a fair and she collapsed in the shower and had a cranial brain hemorrhage.
0:54.3	And I happened to be home and I got her to the, she would,
0:59.8	the abyss came, got her to the hospital.
1:02.7	She ended up being blind and crippled on her left side,
1:08.6	which that got restored over the next year.
1:12.5	But I feel like, um, uh, I feel like now, like my feelings towards her are just more
1:20.6	of like a caregiver.
1:22.4	Like I really, you know, I love her.
1:25.5	I'm there to protect her because she can't do a lot of stuff.
1:29.6	But as far as, like, sexually, it's just gone.
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