Losing my wife after 38 wonderful years, had a great impact on my wellbeing.Seeing Anne deteriorate from this terrible disease for 10 years, and then losing my wife after 38 wonderful years, had a great impact on my wellbeing.
I think I was particularly unable to cope because of earlier trauma I had experienced. In a session with a psychologist some years later, he asked me about my childhood.
I told him that my mother had sent me away from South Africa when I was 12 years old, to live in England with my father. The psychologist suggested that my wife had taken on, in my eyes, the role of a mother to me, as well as a wife.
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