Do you know of any situation where a partner just gave up on someone because of an illness?

Not a "partner" but when my BFF was diagnosis with terminal breast cancer her sister and family refuse to visit her because she didn't want to catch the cancer, she refuse to come into the same room and when she died😢 her family refused to bury her. Her church-family buried her😔.

My sister (cut her out of my life) refused to come in my home, because she told me afraid of catching my diseases. I osteoarthritis especially in my right knee, diabetes and depression. She told me she didn't want to get sick.

She's been in the hospital about 10 for various medical problems.

Me -0-

Just one. A wife of 20+ years moved out of the family home when her husband was diagnosed with a serious illness. She left their teen aged son for him to look after. He recovered eventually, but no credit is due to her.

And, no, she was not invited to return home.

My father-in-law was having several medical problems. He was a diabetic and began suffering from a form a dementia. His wife tried to get everyone to believe he was being abusive to her. She ended up getting arrested because she hit him with a frying pan and wasn't allowed to go back to the house. Unfortunately his dementia was getting worse and the cops had to take him to a facility for evaluation. He never went home, again. My husband barely knew his father, and he lived in GA while we lived in KS at the time. We visited him where the state of GA had put him. It was a deeply depressing place. We had him moved to KS. We also got him a lawyer to divorce his wife so she couldn't have the house. It was used to pay for his care.

Happens if someone is going to die in a few months of cancer or something and is house bound a lot of times another man or women moves in shortly after I am sure they didn't just happen to meet a few days after their husbands or wives funeral.

Unfortunately yes. After being married 19 years a man I knew walked out on his wife and left her totally vulnerable when they discovered she had the beginnings of dementia. He said he didn't want to see her decline or felt he could care for her.  She lived independently for another 12 years before she required supervisory care.

Yes, sadly I know a guy who's wife left him when he was diagnosed with cancer.. On a happier note .. He survived treatment, remarried and is still kick' n it today after 15 yrs of being cancer free

Zack, here is a story with double sadness...a couple who were my neighbors in the 1990's.

She around age 67 had a massive stroke; prognosis poor, wheelchair forever. He cared for her lovingly, diligently; daily therapy sessions with her, finest nutrition, widened doors for her wheelchair maximum mobility, on and on. And then - she made a complete recovery! Mentally and physically, miraculously better than before if possible.

Then five years later, HE had a stroke; mild, full recovery expected. She however demanded he go to a nursing home immediately and when he hesitated, she left him.

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Physically he did okay, got an assisted living apartment...lived to be almost 95 years old, but his heart was forever afterward broken.

Some people are fair-weather only.

No, I've never known anyone to do it, but sounds like an awful situation all around.

Yes, Me. I left myself because of my OCD one night and that was that.

People don't take their wedding vows seriously anymore.....

For better or WORSE

In SICKNESS and health

For richer or POORER
No one knows what the future holds but the future holds so much stronger when they hold on with each other.

To answer your question, no not because of an illness but I have heard stories of people leaving their better half for much stupider things. Marriage is a joke to the world nowadays. :0(