My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the energy of love.

Mark and Giulia’s lifestyle together began as a storybook love. They dropped in like at eighteen, wedded at twenty-four, and were living their fantasy life in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unforeseen psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for pretty much a month. 1 day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; another she was about My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir delusional and suicidal, convinced that her family members were not safe.

Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was created, Giulia experienced another breakdown, and then a third a couple of years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended.

A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity from the human nature, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love tale that raises profound queries: Just how do we care for individuals we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, glowing with compassion, and created with amazing lyricism, Lukach’s can be an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife’s mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family which will affirm visitors’ trust in the power of love.