Meanwhile, I am clinging to survival and your signal boosting would be a massive help, @patrickgaley.bsky.social
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definitely, 100% deserves your love and commitment.

But yeah, men like you aren't the norm.

Your wife is super lucky to have you.

Statistically in heterosexual relationships, men are more likely than women to abandon their disabled spouses.

I'm *physically* abled (for now) but Jason left me ultimately because I wanted to avoid becoming physically disabled by Covid. 🫠

Your wife...

"But your husband makes $27k per year. He can support you!"

Yeah, I know in the disability community they say marriage isn't really legal for disabled people until there are no financial penalties for having a spouse.

hospitals in this city and the provincial government HQ is in Toronto as well.

The second attempt to get him ODSP took two years.

Now it's probably worse, especially with Covid straining the entire system.

And ODSP is still not enough money to live on.

Still all ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program) applications are automatically rejected the first time (something the government will never admit) and the second attempt took about two years.

In Toronto, the part of Canada where doing all of this is the least difficult. We have over 30...

I'm so sorry.

Yeah, the world was ever so slightly less fucked in 2013-2014. And my ex Sean had the advantages of a coordinated team of Toronto based physicians and surgeons with tons of tests and MRIs and insurance documentation for his traumatic brain injury he had in 2011. Slipping on ice...