Quote: Shift your thinking. He has a disability (maybe lots of them), he would like to be more intimate, but because of his “sickness” he can’t. But he still loves you. You just have to help him. Why should that diminish you?
One problem with the "partner with a physical disability" analogy is that since most of us have never been in a situation in which we had a partner with a severe physical disability we would like to think we would be all noble and understanding in that situation. I think in the real world it would probably s*ck. I mean you could tell the woman whose husband has Alzheimer's that just because he can't remember her name doesn't mean that he doesn't love her and it would probably be true in some sense but it wouldn't make her situation less s*cky.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
