Introduction

A couple of years ago, my wife and I were supposed to go to Virginia to see her father. We had just found out a couple of weeks before that that her dad had dementia. It was a pretty emotionally draining time for my wife. Add on to the emotional drainage of this issue with her dad was this, just the physical fatigue. She was breastfeeding. And she was constantly tired from the constant demand of mothering. So he decided: "I'll take that one on the chin"