When I first got diagnosed last January, my husband really struggled with it. He, like many men, is a fixer, and this was something that he could not fix. So he began pulling away, and had a five month affair that started about two months after I got sick.

We have been working really hard to get past this, and it is an everyday struggle. But one of the things that has really been helping, is that we make time after son goes to bed to talk about anything that we are feeling. This is something that neither of us has been very good at, as we were both brought up in family situations where this did not happen. I think that these nightly sessions, is one of the things that is really helping us to heal.