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Spouse Caregiver
Caring for a Sick Husband or Wife With Dementia, Cancer, or Chronic Illness: Coping With Loneliness, Lost Intimacy, Resentment, and Guilt While You Keep Your Marriage and Yourself AliveBy Imad Muratspahic
Length3h 19m
About this audiobook
You said 'in sickness and in health', and you meant it. What no one explained is how lonely the sickness side can be: a husband or wife who is still beside you but no longer quite your partner, a bed with no touch in it, a retirement or family you planned that is not going to happen, and a quiet fury or guilt you are afraid to say out loud. Spouse Caregiver is written for the husband or wife who is caring for a spouse with dementia, cancer, or a chronic illness, and who is tired of advice that stops at 'make time for yourself'. It is about the marriage and about you, not about nursing tasks. It is not a guide to caring for an aging parent, not a handbook for managing dementia behaviours, not a depression or ADHD partner guide, and not a dead-bedroom manual. It stays with the one thing those do not: staying a spouse, and a person, inside the caregiver role. Inside, you'll learn: You will not find a promise to fix the situation. You will find permission to feel what you feel, practical words for hard conversations, and a way to keep going without disappearing.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length3 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Spouse Caregiver
2Important Notice
3Introduction: You Are Allowed to Be Both Tired and Married
4Chapter 1: The Role Nobody Voted You Into
5Chapter 2: Grieving Someone Who Is Still Here
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6Chapter 3: Loneliness in a Full House
7Chapter 4: The Anger You Are Not Supposed to Have
8Chapter 5: When the Person You Love Is Cruel
9Chapter 6: Touch, Sex, and the Marriage That Changed
10Chapter 7: Staying Married Inside the Illness
11Chapter 8: When the Illness Is Dementia
12Chapter 9: Cancer and Chronic Illness: Living Between Scans and Flares
13Chapter 10: Keeping a Self: The Ten-Minute Minimum
14Chapter 11: Asking for Help and Getting It
15Chapter 12: Money, Paperwork, and the Decisions That Arrive Together
16Chapter 13: When Home Is No Longer Enough
17Conclusion: What a Good Enough Marriage Looks Like Now
18Quick Reference
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