I’d been with Chris for 11 years since we were 18. He’d always been the class clown and a bit of joker, but it all changed when Covid hit.
Our son Ted was born in January 2020 and the lockdown started a couple of months later. It meant we had to cope on our own with a newborn, and our family and friends couldn’t meet him.The change in Chris gradually become more noticeable.
He was making fewer jokes and seemed more fragile. It wasn’t until 2022 that Chris finally said he was going to see the GP to talk about how he was feeling, and maybe get some medication.
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