Please help! I'm so stuck!!

Hi all,

Was really hoping for some help/advice here please.

I'm not the one suffering with cancer my husband of only 10 months is. We found out yesterday that he has a fast and aggressive tumour in his pinel region of his brain and is going to need chemo and radiotherapy. 

I have only just been through this exact journey with my dad, he had cancer of the lungs and pituitary gland. He died in july last year and I'm still in massive grief for him! 

Reason I need help, my husbands family have been awful towards me, name calling blaming me etc and hes just letting them do it, I feel very unloved, disrespected because I am so trying my best, been to every appointment, do his meds feed him, everything a wife should do yes, I am 25 hes 30, he now speaks to me like I'm the bad guy and I am struggling to cope with it because hes changed already! I have thought about sending him to his mums because hes said that's what hed want to do if he had to have another op... which blew my mind anyway! 

Please please can someone make sense of this mess and help me see a way through this? 

I have old fashioned morals and sickness in health we said, but I'm not here to be unhappy and treated this way! My family around me are heartbroken for me and are all edging me on to leave him! How awful would that be? He doesn't need that as well as everything else..... 

 

Thank you xx

  • Hi kpane, it sounds like you can't win, what would happen if you want to your relatives for a while, let his relatives look after him, i know it will upset you but it might make them and him realise how much you're doing to help him. Hope you can work something out, good luck.

    Billy 

  • Hi.   I feel your pain.  I just can’t do right for my mother at the moment.  I find that the guilt of wanting to pull away is overwhelming sometimes.  My mum was diagnosed in January.  For me it’s been five very long months.  Some time out for you will be vital for you at some point perhaps?  I find that I need permission to take a break....if it’s just a day.  It’s keeping me sane so far...although barely some days!

    Good luck.

     

  • I really feel for you as I no how it feels when your trying to do every you can for someone and it’s frustrating and hurtful when they make you feel like what your doing for them is never enough ,by the sounds of it it sounds like your doing more and beyond for your husband , try hold on to that truth