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In Relationships • 1 min read • May 14, 2025 15:42p.m.
Terminal Illness & Young Love
<p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Imagine two people, deeply in love, just starting their life together, engaged, full of dreams. Then one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As their health declines, they know they’ll become increasingly dependent: medical visits, emotional breakdowns, physical deterioration.</p><p><br></p><p>They don’t want their partner—young, vibrant, full of life—to spend years nursing someone who won’t get better. They fear not only the burden but the memory it would leave: watching someone you love fade away, helplessly.</p><p><br></p><p>So, out of love,not fear—they step away.</p><p><br></p><p>Not because they don’t want to be loved.</p><p>Not because they’re tired.</p><p>But because they want the person they love to remember them in light, not in pain.</p><p>To live fully, not mourn slowly.</p><p><br></p><p>That’s letting go from selflessness, not weakness.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>It doesn’t mean this is the right decision for everyone. Some partners want to stay, to fight it together. That’s also valid and beautiful. The key is that true love adapts to context. Sometimes staying is love. Sometimes walking away is love too.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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Terminal Illness & Young Love
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