Laura Mauldin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
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It was sort of like a lightning strike, as they say, and that was kind of it.
From that moment, we were never apart again.
She told me that this is kind of the last chance.
I have to have this thing called a bone marrow transplant or this will kill me.
I think all of us think about or want to think about illness in this way.
Oh, I just have to do X, Y, Z. And on the other side of that, everything will be resolved and I can go back to my life.
But there was no going back.
And as it kind of drug on longer and longer, I realized, oh, this is my role.
I became the one to do it all.
I think we have a fantasy of our romantic partner being the one and everything to us, such that when you are in a relationship, or at least I felt this way, that it was primarily my job to do everything.
No one else is living with her 24 hours a day.
No one else is the person who has to get her to the emergency room.
There are just things by virtue of being a partner and living with someone that you're intimately connected with that other people aren't.
And so I think being the one
is something that happens in a really invisible way because it's subtle and it's intimate and we don't necessarily question the role of someone's partner or spouse.
There are consequences to that that are both good and bad.
Because when you're very good at it, you also ensure that that person is getting the best care.
You're the one that knows exactly how they like to have this particular, you know, tea made or this particular dish.
You know exactly how they like their pillows, you know.
There's this exquisite kind of care that can happen when you're that knowledgeable about someone that's wonderful.
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