MS, you and I have been together for many years now, but lately our relationship has become very strained and increasingly difficult. I know my anger towards you hasn't helped the situation, but you have to understand that my anger is purely a natural reaction to the terrible things you have done to me.
When we first got together we seemed to get on OK, but it wasn't long before you started to be controlling. It's now gotten so bad, that I can hardly make a move without your say so.
You won't let me work, taking away my financial independence, or let me go outside on my own, cutting me off from my family and friends. I'm not allowed to cook anymore or clean the house, you are with me when I shower, and use the toilet. You even influence when I go bed, and get up. As for the injuries caused by your physical attacks, these have been debilitating, and there are no signs that they will stop, in fact I believe that they will, not only continue, but will only get worse.
A marriage is supposed to be based on give and take, but all I see in this partnership, is that you have taken so much from me, but given nothing. All you've done is cause me pain, and taken away any hope I had in the future, and in living a normal life. I want the life I had before I knew you back. I want to feel once again the freedom I had before you stifled my independent spirit. In short, I would really like a divorce.
If only it were that easy? To employ some supernatural lawyer, or arbiter who could divorce us from life's problems, but like it or not there isn't. Those of us who are living with an incurable illness, are paired with it , "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part". All we can do is learn to accept it, and find ways how we can best live with it.