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Living and loving someone with MI presents relationship challenges and often others cannot see why we chose to stay with our partners.
Being mindful of not intruding on others stories I thought having a thread where we can share tips and encourage one another would be of value.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
yaaaa @Former-Member 
how is today going xx
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Just home from being out @Shaz51 , time to walk the dog.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
well , did 2 loads of washing
fresh sheets on the bed , hang out the washing
loaded the ute for work
cleaned out the vaccumms
mr shaz helped everytime I got up @Former-Member
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The twins are similar in so many ways @Shaz51 , Mr Darcy helps out a lot.
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@Shaz51 @Former-Member @Determined @Newbie @Magneto @Raine
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@Sophie1is a trip to the market a possibility this weekend? Something else enjoyable?
@Shaz51 have you the time to be able to go somewhere for an hour or so to take photos?
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I rather suspect that as a long term caregiver it would be easy to end up in a rut and not be open to doing things different ways or exploring ideas that would make life a heck of a lot easier for ourselves.
Important that we keep sharing the things that frustrate us as we can benefit from the the ideas that are floated around as to how others manage.
Sometimes we can stumble across things that are really helpful or have "Eureka moments" and l love hearing about these if you have any to share.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
yes true @Former-Member
friday afternoon I had my hair done
saturday took my to a cent sale
it is easy to end up in a rut
Important that we keep sharing the Important that we keep sharing the things that frustrate us as we can benefit from the the ideas that are floated around as to how others manage.
@Former-Member what things are frustrating you at the moment my friend xx
the things that frustrates me is --- mr shaz saying " ohh we should of done that today " or " I thought about doing this today " when we have arrived back home or it is too late to do anything about it
@Determined , @Former-Member , @Newbie
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NewbieContributor
Yep last night the MR said lets go on a picnic tomorow, he woke up not in the best mood didmt even mention it. I domt even let myself get my hopes up anymore. No expectation no dissapointment 😞
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
yes same here @Newbie
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