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How to love someone with dementia who no longer recognizes you

My wife was diagnosed with early-onset dementia six months ago and sometimes she looks at me like she has no idea who I am, and I don't know how to love someone who is slowly disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The familiar face of love becomes a stranger's, forcing a reckoning with whether love can exist without recognition.

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