They develop a fierce relationship. He slowly finds himself changing into the person he thinks she wants him to be, but the constant furious attacks are withering. He's the only one who is there for her, but she hated him from their first moments and she is enraged about the injustice of her illness, and her dependence on this stranger.
The relationship is becoming deeply unhealthy on both sides. He loves her, but hates how she has emotionally destroyed him. He is there as a sole witness to her last days and she loves him for his care, but they were always fundamentally incompatible, and worse, she knows on some level that he is taking her last days for his own. Once she's dead, he'll still have those memories that she had no choice but to give him.
Before she dies, she takes off her ring. She doesn't want him there, she wants him to move on forget her. He realises he never should have gotten involved in the first place and partly only tried so hard because he himself was weak and lonely too.
After she has died, he is haunted by the memory of her and his guilt over what he created. He loved and hated her, as she loved and hated him. It was so unbearable he feels like he died too, but it was still love.
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They develop a fierce relationship. He slowly finds himself changing into the person he thinks she wants him to be, but the constant furious attacks are withering. He's the only one who is there for her, but she hated him from their first moments and she is enraged about the injustice of her illness, and her dependence on this stranger.
The relationship is becoming deeply unhealthy on both sides. He loves her, but hates how she has emotionally destroyed him. He is there as a sole witness to her last days and she loves him for his care, but they were always fundamentally incompatible, and worse, she knows on some level that he is taking her last days for his own. Once she's dead, he'll still have those memories that she had no choice but to give him.
Before she dies, she takes off her ring. She doesn't want him there, she wants him to move on forget her. He realises he never should have gotten involved in the first place and partly only tried so hard because he himself was weak and lonely too.
After she has died, he is haunted by the memory of her and his guilt over what he created. He loved and hated her, as she loved and hated him. It was so unbearable he feels like he died too, but it was still love.