I'm 58 and been riddled with Rheumatoid and Osteo Arthritis since I was 29 when it was diagnosed although a Rheumatoid nurse I saw thinks it actually started when I was in my teens. The pain is never-ending and excruciating 24/7/365 and I'm registered physically disabled and on PIP for it. I have difficulty in walking, moving, bending, gripping etc. I also have a permanency damaged bad back and I have a weird way of walk.
My hubby is absolutely brilliant and helps whenever he can in any way such as helping me dress/undress, showers etc. He doesn't get along with his parents, brother, sister or their families and it's been about 16 years when he saw any of them last time. Apparently he's never 100% got along with them anyway.
Also, I'm only 5'1 tall, very plain and obese, I'm big because I'm physically unable to exercise because of the disabilities. So when we first met in September 2007 when I was 42 and he was 46, while his fit, active good looking family didn't have the guts to say to my face ''we don't want a hideous disabled freak like you in our family'' that's exactly what they meant. Also, they demanded grandkids which we refuse to ''give'' them, they don't like me because I refuse to breed and also we were far too old for such things anyway. Hubby is now 62. His dad made it very clear to me he expects me to be a subservient housewife and mother and when I said no, he turned even nastier.
On holiday they'd invite us but only to make it clear we're the outsiders and they'd either be really quite obnoxious to us or literally completely ignore us altogether then accuse us of being anti-social when we didn't speak back to them. So we officially married in February 2011. It was the 1st marriage for us both.
Then one day hubby got a vicious email from his dad on behalf of the entire family, totally scathing about me, making really nasty comments, then his dad said ''she hasn't got arthritis, and if she has she's exaggerating it''. Hubby was as fuming as I was so I replied to them that I've read all of their scathing vicious vindictive email and that I'll be suing them and dragging them through every court in the land for slander, defamation of character and anything else I could get my hands on. I gave them a right mouthful, sent the email and never ever spoke to any of them again.
To me, what they said was no only 100% bitchy but just sheer evil.