kiki5711, thank you for sharing your personal experience with cancer. You talk about it in the past tense so I hope things have improved in your life now. Congratulations on your survivorship!
I think you understand a fear I have. If I walk away like he's asking me to, am I enabling depression and isolation to set in? When he was first diagnosed, he asked me point-blank to not let him isolate. Do I have a responsibility as someone who loves him dearly?
But if I fight to stay and keep our relationship alive, am I adding to the incredible stress he is already facing? It's easy for him to shut the door on me because we don't live together.
All rhetorical questions, but thoughts I am struggling with. Searching for answers, perspective and patience.