Staying with him. I’m not, I just love him. I’ve loved him since we were nine, I’m not leaving him just because of some bad days. I’m not going to stop loving him just because I have to take care of him more often than someone else might. He’s my husband, my first love and my last love. I wouldn’t leave for the world. I’d follow him anywhere he goes.

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🥲 thank you for this post! feel like I mostly only ever see other disabled people being the ones to push back against the “wow, you’re a saint for loving & supporting someone like that” rhetoric. self-aware & principled take, I love to see it

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This is exactly how I feel with my partner. I don’t want to marry him out of pity, I want to marry him because he’s incredible and brings me more joy than anyone else in the world. Every sleepless night I spend helping him is worth it because I love him and the only thing worse than him being in pain is him being in pain alone. I’m not here for pity, I’m not here to drag myself down, I’m here because we can both go further than we ever could alone when we’re together.

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I’ve been discarded before bc of my illness (and how I was navigating it, or not) Good for you, not for “staying with him” but for just being a good person Need more of that

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