My husband, and 45 year old friend, has COPD and after 4 months of marriage said ‘its looks like I will have to take care of you, instead of you taking care of me’, and he left within 36 hours. Tell me my marriage is over on Saturday morning my Sunday he was moving out and left and never seen since. And with these disorders stress is our enemy. So climbing up out of something like that is emotionally devastating along with the life changing on us as we knew it.