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Navigating Memory Loss in Marriage: Part One

Episode 41: Navigating Memory Loss in Marriage: Part One

How does love survive when memory fails? Three couples navigating dementia show what remains - devotion, creativity, connection, even as the past slips away. (Part One)

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In this episode of The Catch Up, Emily talks with reporter Maggie Baribault to examine the quiet transformation that occurs when memory loss enters a marriage. Through conversations with three couples navigating different stages of dementia and Alzheimer's, we witness how love adapts when the architecture of shared history begins to crumble. These intimate portraits reveal both the weight of caregiving and the surprising moments of connection that persist, small acts of creativity, flashes of recognition, the muscle memory of devotion. What emerges is not a clinical study but a deeply human exploration of what remains when remembering becomes impossible, and how couples forge new ways of being together even as the past slips away.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio

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Maggie Baribault

Maggie Baribault

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