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I Live You For Ever

Dementia in a Loving Marriage

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Pub Date Apr 28 2026 | Archive Date May 20 2026


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Description

I Live You For Ever is a candid and penetrating memoir chronicling Meredith Rutter Marple’s nine-year journey caring for her husband, Gary, as mixed dementia reshaped the fabric of their marriage. What began as small slips—forgotten directions, mental-math errors—unfolded into a relentless progression of symptoms associated with vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and Lewy body dementia.

Drawing from her personal journals, Meredith captures the intimacy of conversations and the daily negotiations of love, anger, denial, and acceptance between partners bound together by decades of shared life. With honesty and compassion, she illuminates the dual tragedy of spousal dementia: the gradual fading of the ill partner and the parallel unraveling—and resilience—of the caregiving partner.

At once heartbreaking and hopeful, this memoir is both a testament to enduring love and a call to face the “what-ifs” of aging with courage and candor. 

I Live You For Ever is a candid and penetrating memoir chronicling Meredith Rutter Marple’s nine-year journey caring for her husband, Gary, as mixed dementia reshaped the fabric of their marriage...


A Note From the Publisher

With a BS in zoology from Tufts University, Meredith Rutter Marple has enjoyed a career devoted to books—from textbook to trade publishing and then writing. She remembers her kindergarten classmates having to take naps (in the early 1950s during the polio scare) while she, promising to be quiet, was allowed to stay awake reading. She thanks her mother for that intervention. Meredith spends her time in Florida and Maine. Her award-winning debut novel, The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More, is set in Midcoast Maine. Hobbies include bridge, mahjong, and New York Times crossword puzzles.

With a BS in zoology from Tufts University, Meredith Rutter Marple has enjoyed a career devoted to books—from textbook to trade publishing and then writing. She remembers her kindergarten classmates...


Advance Praise

"I Live You For Ever: Dementia in a Loving Marriage is unique in its delivery. Meredith Rutter Marple writes about her relationship with Gary as though it were happening right now, which makes their connection even more believable and compelling. She mixes her discussions of love and loss well. One of the themes I appreciated was the author’s view of how caring for a loved one can shape our identity. The book discusses “loss of self” resulting from caregiving and follows the author’s journey to reclaim her identity. I also enjoyed how she addresses the fear of leaving loved ones in a professional institution. This insightful memoir is a story of courage, a journey through illness, and the transformations that happen while loving and caring for someone." - Reader's Favorite

"Marple does not conceal away the physical, mental, and emotional toil of watching Gary slip away, even as she navigates her own health struggle. She captures the heartbreak of holding onto memories while the person she loves, though still present, is slowly changing before her eyes. She writes with a quiet acceptance that feels heartbreaking and admirable. [...] As with many memoirs that explore the loss of a loved one, I Live You For Ever acts as a little tribute to the life Meredith and Gary shared. A reminder to cherish the memories we have with our loved ones and find strength in them when the times get tough." -Independent Book Review 

"I Live You For Ever: Dementia in a Loving Marriage is unique in its delivery. Meredith Rutter Marple writes about her relationship with Gary as though it were happening right now, which makes their...


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ISBN 9798901741634
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
PAGES 334

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