Disability is not death
We have such laws as anti-discrimination because people with disabilities are treated as though they were less than real people. It is deeply ingrained in much of our society, including your wife. Disabilities of most sorts affect parts of our bodies, and lives, but not others. Mental disabilities are particularly difficult to deal with but most physical injuries can be learned to be dealt with.
First, you see a counselor who specializes in these things to see how well you are dealing with it. Then, you and your wife, with help, see how well you, as a couple, are dealing with it.
It sounds as though you are doing well with it around the house; sometimes her seeing that you are trying to expand your capabilities with volunteer work or other work you can do will hit home and convince her that you are still a person.
Brandye
Posted: 04 Oct 23:48