Well, I am not religious, I do follow a Buddhist practice and meditation, and in the concept of being present now. I like that I can be content and happy between difficult times, except I seem to have a knee-jerk reaction to being irritable when I have to repeat things so often for my husband are use a notebook to remember important things in my life and ask my husband to do the same, however, he doesn’t seem to want to do that. Perhaps, I am in denial about his fading memory, otherwise, why would I expect him to keep track of things I get mad at myself for not being patient at times. All the times, I can be loving and accepting of his difficulties with cognitive impairment.
Thanks for sharing your practices and dealing with your wife’s memory loss. I clearly have work to do to improve my reactiveness.