Having finally come to terms with living in one foreign culture, rural Arizona, the Fates have decided I need to tackle a new one, that of living with someone who is increasingly becoming more mentally fragile. Who is showing signs of, perhaps, early dementia? I am no doctor and, actually, that's what I/we are now trying to determine, what exactly is going on with them? For all the years I have known them, they have from time to time suffered from anxiety. They've withdrawn into darkened rooms, sleeping during the day, up at night. Bouts of delirious joy at some strange scheme they've dreamed up and then days or sometimes hours later, despair. They had a big fixation/obsession/problem in their lives that for decades I've tried to help them resolve. A lot of the mechanics of it were resolved a few years ago but the memories still linger on for them. In the past we've, both of us because for better or for worse we are a partnership, each dealt with this in different