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Cook65
8 years agoMember
Oh Sam! I'm so sorry to hear of how you are feeling and the insensitive comments. I can't offer advice but my family were very unsupportive during my 16 months of treatment, particularly my husband. We almost split up over it. Then one day it all came to a head. We found ourselves crying in a corner at the local shopping precinct starting to talk for the first time in just over two years. Since then we have talked a lot more and I have realised just how traumatised my family were and that my husband in particular, was floundering. He didn't know what to do, so he did nothing. He was too scared to share his emotions with me because I had cancer and how could anything he had to say or complain about or vent about possibly compare to that. He tried to save me from extra stres