Erin2's husband felt terrible for not realizing how bad she was feeling.
Transcript
Well I know my husband like afterwards, like after that tipping point when I finally went to the hospital. He expressed to me later how bad he felt that he didn’t know. And he didn’t t know how bad it had got and you know, that he didn’t really like understand how it had got. Because in his mind it had gone from like oh, she feels kind of like not great, to she’s in the hospital. Like how did that happen?
In my mind it was a much slower progression. But again you know you’re trying to be strong. You’re trying to soldier on. You’re trying to like just get through the day to day. And so you know you don’t want to put that burden on someone else. And so for him it was like what happened overnight? But for me it was like no, this has been happening slowly for a long time. It’s just got to the point now where I can’t handle it on my own.
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