Caring And Determined Wife Goes Above And Beyond To Help Husband Recover From A Stroke

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Comments suggesting it isn't right to say this because one study was retracted always crop up whenever this fact is brought up on Reddit, as if that one study is the only evidence we ever had of it.

They are perfectly fine to say what they did given it's supported by other studies that confirm men are more likely to leave their wives when they become seriously ill than the other way around. The 2015 study isn't the only research ever done on the subject. There is earlier research confirming the same thing, and doctors and nurses have been warning their female patients about it for a lot longer than the last 10 years.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110105401.htm

A woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis than if a man in the relationship is the patient, according to a study that examined the role gender played in so-called "partner abandonment." The study also found that the longer the marriage the more likely it would remain intact.

The study confirmed earlier research that put the overall divorce or separation rate among cancer patients at 11.6 percent, similar to the population as a whole. However, researchers were surprised by the difference in separation and divorce rates by gender. The rate when the woman was the patient was 20.8 percent compared to 2.9 percent when the man was the patient.