The Self That Remains

He's Not the Man I Married. But He Was Still Here.

A Tender Warrior reflection on labels, identity, and the self that remains

Everyone knows that dementia takes things — memory, ability, language, the capacity to reason through even the simplest decision. What we talk about far less, and what I lived and want to speak plainly about, is what it doesn’t take. And whether a relationship can survive, even fl…