Partners and their thoughts .

Clearly they didn't sign up for this. Strokes are the number three disabler known to us. This is as common as chicken soup. This is how ever; not chicken soup.

Partners have a hard time coping with their new responsibility - all of a sudden they have a needy two year old. Can they cope? Mostly not so much. They need support too. But they have a car and a job maybe and have an outside life.

If we fight, we forget we fight, we also forget what we are arguing about - wait 60 seconds and we will still be angry and not know why.

They can remember stuff we forget, they can live for us. They need to tell us how their day was because we miss the outside world.

To a degree they have to live for us.

We don't however want to be felt sorry for. Frankly we are all in jail with this one. We took the hit for the team. We have the capacity to love, and get upset and start crying if we can't cope. Sorry - we just became childish and can't fix this.

All we know is: it could have happened to you, but it happened to me.