Abstract

My wife's first change occurred in our fourth year of marriage, when she was 29 years old - severe overeating and vomiting, uninterrupted drinking, heavy medication use, wrist cutting, and then dementia in her 40s.
This is a heartbreaking reportage on what it means to love someone. He spent nearly 20 years worrying about balancing work and caring for his mentally ill wife.

Author’s Information

Born in 1968. After working at the Yomiuri Shimbun Western Headquarters, he joined the Asahi Shimbun Company in 2002. He has worked in the Okayama General Bureau, the Osaka Headquarters Life and Culture Department, the Osaka Representative Office, the Regional News Department, and Voice Editorial, and is currently at the Network News Department. He won the Poverty Journalism Award in 2007 and 2009 for his reporting on welfare.