Random Musing About Caring and Homeschooling
May 18, 2018 Caring, Elderly, Homeschooling, Mental Illness
So, over the last couple of years my life has exploded, and not in a good way! In 2012 my mother and her two sisters moved from 45 minutes away from my home to 3 hours away! For reasons which…
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February 23, 2015 Mental Illness, Old Blog
It has been a rollercoaster of a month which is why I’ve been missing. This month marked 25 years since my wedding day and my husband wanted to get together for coffee to mark the day. It was a very…
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January 10, 2015 Mental Illness, Old Blog
As I navigate life as a single parent I find many things confusing. Amongst them is the question of why, when my husband has spent many years accusing me of being unfaithful and trying to put him down, he wants…
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October 26, 2014 Mental Illness, Old Blog
It may seem obvious but when someone has a person in their life who is mentally unstable it is not their fault and it’s not easy. There are some things that you might be tempted to say to them that…
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October 12, 2014 Mental Illness, Old Blog
Living with a person with mental illness is full of what if moments. What if I had known that they had this illness before I married them? What if I had realised sooner that they had a mental illness? What…
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October 4, 2014 Caring, Mental Illness, Old Blog
Sometimes living with someone with a mental illness is like playing a game where no one will tell you the rules and when you do figure out the rules someone changes them. I’ve been married to someone with a mental…
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August 26, 2014 Mental Illness, Old Blog
My life has been turned upside down as I’ve had to admit that sometimes the best way to help someone who is mentally ill is to stop helping them. Today my Centrelink claim has been finalised and I have come…
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August 26, 2014 Mental Illness
Well, after 24 years of caring for my mentally ill husband I’m officially on a break. For the second time in 4 years I have had to separate the rest of us from my husband. This time, we get to…
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July 22, 2014 Caring, Mental Illness
I will be spending a lot of time away from my husband this week as I swap from caring for my husband to caring for my mother and her two older sisters. When we have to be focused on caring…
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July 21, 2014 Caring, Mental Illness
I mainly started writing this blog because, although we have started to be better at discussing mental health issues, we seem to be less good at talking about the experience of caring for someone with a mental illness. I think…
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