HowdyPartner
2 years agoMember
Please help me help my wife.
My wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in January and is BRCA1 so a double mastectomy is more than likely happening soon.
I'm getting better at just letting her vent and holding her sometimes instead of wanting to fix everything.
I don't know how to help her with her own mental state with the impending surgery on top of the already completed hysterectomy.
She said the other night, and excuse me for being blunt, "Would you still feel like a man if you had your d*** and b**** cut off?".
Now I don't care what she looks like, surgery could remove anything and I would still love her and be lost without her, but I'm at a loss as to how to help or what to do when she gets sad about the last of her "woman parts" being removed.
Of course having bits taken off is better then some of the less desirable outcomes, but how can I help her deal with her feelings moving forward?
Have you been there? If so got any tips?
I'm getting better at just letting her vent and holding her sometimes instead of wanting to fix everything.
I don't know how to help her with her own mental state with the impending surgery on top of the already completed hysterectomy.
She said the other night, and excuse me for being blunt, "Would you still feel like a man if you had your d*** and b**** cut off?".
Now I don't care what she looks like, surgery could remove anything and I would still love her and be lost without her, but I'm at a loss as to how to help or what to do when she gets sad about the last of her "woman parts" being removed.
Of course having bits taken off is better then some of the less desirable outcomes, but how can I help her deal with her feelings moving forward?
Have you been there? If so got any tips?