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Your view is honorable, godly and full of purpose when a caretaker is young and energetic but now that I am 52 looking after a 60 year old diabetic who has been ill for 20 years.....my courage and zeal to my commitment are flagging. I have had so little support over the years and now I have indications of Lou Gerig's disease so that I do not provide good care anymore. The system pressures me into steering this ship of diseases and I am anchored into being an unhealthy helmsman. I know our ships are going down but I would appreciate some gentle loving kindness in the process. Who would have thought the end would look like this? I am so sorry for those who are unwell caregivers......we are totally misunderstood. I wish that in our humanity, we could care until death do us part, but after many years that comes to an end also. I don't know a happy solution to leaving or staying an unwell spouse but it is to remember to do in love and kindness. My husband has become the patient of a patient.