Publisher's Synopsis
Tapestry, poignant at times, at once heartbreaking and courageous, promises to deepen the understanding of what it takes for two people who love each other to remain a -we-, even as one of them is dying and the decline threatens to rock the strength and center of the other.
-Where is loving in all this? How am I to be loving in the face of despair, mood swings, anger? How am I to feel sexual, sensual, when I am living through fear and fatigue? How am I to switch from support person for a man who is in misery, to lover, eager for his caress?-
Tapestry, about the changing nature of love, is told through a voice of gentle wisdom as the author searches for equilibrium and spiritual strength. Her voice guides one through the challenges that threaten at every turn to make a good marriage vanish before your eyes. At the heart of the book is the question of restoration: How does one restore oneself when so many years have been given to another? How does one stay intact when the partner you love and rely on is declining? How does one stay on the path with decline, knowing that at some point, the fork in the road will come?
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