Abstract

A 40-year-old man came to the clinic recently for follow-up of his hypertension and reactive depression following his father’s murder a couple of months prior. This day he was more upbeat and told me he had met a woman whom he believed to be “the one” for him. This was especially important as I knew he had previously gone through a painful divorce and had been wary of intimate relationships. He described his new friend as being a wonderful woman who was raising two nice teenagers, was active in her church and who lived out her Christianity rather than just talking about it like so many people he had met before. He told me this relationship was causing him to consider spiritual matters more seriously. I congratulated him on what sounded like a healthy relationship and the cautious way in which they were beginning to get to know one another.