You know what? Nothing is wrong with a spouse that sticks around. There is something very right with a spouse that sticks around.

And I can tell you I was married to a guy who made a lot of money and blah blah blah. I divorced him because he wasn't the guy for me. I don't regret that. Even though now I'm poor, I am with the man I love with all my heart. That is way more important, and I'm saying this coming from being totally destitute, thrown out of my own home, having to eat at food banks, etc. Because the truth is, being with the right person is way better than being with the wrong person who has money.

And, I can tell you my mom had cancer pretty much my whole life until she died. I don't remember when she didn't have cancer, I was just a baby. My dad could have easily ditched her because her treatments were so expensive, she was in constant pain, they never got to live the dream they had when they got married, etc. He could have ditched her for another woman who was healthy. But he didn't. He stayed at her side right to her very last breathe. And even now he misses her. He just said the other day that he thinks about being reunited with her after death all the time because he misses her so much. And that was almost 20 years ago since her death!

So, I don't think anything is wrong with a spouse that sticks around. That's what marriage is. "Sickness AND Health" not or health. It is the people who ditch their spouses because they are ill who are the ones that have something wrong!