It's very difficult living with someone when she thinks you have Altzheimers

My wife's father did have Alzheimer's! She is constantly searching for evidence that I am doing things, that a person with Alzheimer's would do. She is watching my every move. This is maddening and I do not think I can stand this! Just how do you prove a negative? I have been in engineering and design most of my life, but I have been out of work for the last year or slightly more. She is working and we have Social Security income. I take care of everything around the house except for some of the washing of clothes, which involves pushing a button. I also fix all the meals and cleanup, while I am looking for work during the day. And during the day, I am contacting companies, revising my resume, revising my summary, searching the net for open positions, and trying to change my field of work. I also just finished going to a security class in order to obtain a job as a security guard. This involves a reduction in my pay of about 75%. Television is our primary entertainment mode, because there is no money for anything else. Our house and property is paid for, as is one vehicle. She has the newest vehicle that we bought less than a year ago.

Staying together is the only thing that makes any sense at all, since so much that we have is paid for. To split this up and divorce would be throwing away all of our security. That, to my mind, would be insanity, since we are 67 and 75 respectively.

I would appreciate any comments or thoughts about what I have written here, and there is no one else to talk to about this problem. I will continue to write about any other developments concerning this in coming days.