Reply #1: Having taken care of my elderly parents through years of Alzheimer's, I have to agree

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with Robertson that nobody should be put through a guilt trip for finding another loved one while taking care of a spouse in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease. Robertson happens to believe that you should divorce if you are planning to take another partner. I don't personally feel that way. But he specifically says that you must continue to take care of the Alzheimer's victim.

Until you have lived closely with the reality of Alzheimer's Disease, you really can't understand how it changes everything you think you know about human life and relationships.

This does not mean that you can abandon the Alzheimer's victim. You absolutely cannot. Nobody is more dependent upon loving care than an Alzheimer's victim. You have an absolute responsibility to that person. But the caregiver also deserves compassion. Otherwise the caregiver's life is ruined too. And I mean ruined. It happens often.

I think we're barking up the wrong tree here to accuse Robertson of being unChristian in this case.