Jennifer2 says she and her husband can no longer have the active life they used to have.
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I mean my partner and I, we used to be very, very active. Very, very active. We would walk a minimum of 10,000 to 20,000 steps. We would travel several times a year and we would do like pretty intrepid travel. We’ve driven all across Morocco, you know, we’ve been to Egypt and – I mean we’ve done a lot of intrepid travel now and we’re known to be like full of energy. My nickname, my family nickname was the Energizer bunny. I don’t know if you recall those batteries that last forever. So all the other bunnies die, this one keeps going. So I was the Energizer bunny and now I’m this. So for my partner, it’s meant that the retirement that he envisioned will not happen. We’ve actually had many conversations where usually when I’m very, very depressed and in the depths of despair, obviously when I tell him, “Let’s call it quits. Let’s just call it quits” because I don’t want to be responsible, I don’t want to be the cause of his retirement, his life having changed so drastically. You know, and he says, “Oh, so if they diagnose me with cancer then you’ll walk out tomorrow and not” – you know, just take it very at that level … We have a very, very good relationship but at times when I feel it’s not fair to him. It’s not fair to him … In a way, you could say that the relationship perhaps is stronger just because my partner has been so incredibly supportive. You know, sort of a bit of a test maybe I can say. But our life is not at all, at all, at all what it used to be, so yeah.
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