It has been a long time since I posted. Clark has come a long way. We moved to Alabama, from Ohio and that is a good thing. We are in a struggle though. So, I need to blog it out. LOL. Before Clark had his strokes, he was in charge of everything. He did the finances, made all the decisions. I worked full time, but left everything else up to him. That all changed when he had his strokes, I took over, in every way. When I look back, I was determined to be strong and "fix" everything. To make this short, I became the decision maker, since Clark couldn't. Well, now (Thank the Lord), Clark is still progressing. He still has speech, reading, memory and a little right side weakness, but he has come back enough that he wants the decision making or control back. I in the other hand, don't want to give it totally up. We both recognize this and talk about how to handle it. We disagree a lot and it escalates to a fight status more then we both like. We want to level out. We want to some how come to a agreement that, neither of us need to be in control. We can work equally with each other. But, man that is easier said then done. I am sure other stroke families have experienced this. I think Clark and I are starting to go in the right direction, since we at least understand what has happening. I think what I need to do, is to back off more, keep the little "lips" sewed shut more.
Here we go another stage in our marriage, the other end will be wonderful....
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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