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I thought my husband, 36, was falling out of love with me - it turns out to be symptoms of DEMENTIA READ MORE: Bruce Willis' family announce 'painful' health update By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 19:31, 20 May 2024 | Updated: 19:59, 20 May 2024 e-mail 3 View comments A woman whose husband developed dementia in his 30s has revealed how the condition was almost dismissed as a mid-life crisis. Kristin married Lee Holloway in Maui in 2015, and they had a baby in 2016 - but within months her 'brilliant, amazing husband’ became an entirely different person.

Suddenly, the notoriously early riser struggled to get out of bed in time for work, which soon turned into missing whole days of work at the cybersecurity firm Cloudflare he had helped build. He lashed out at coworkers, became withdrawn, and eventually couldn't leave the couch, choosing instead to watch Home Alone for the tenth time that week. Kristin feared it was a problem in her marriage - maybe this life was not what Lee wanted after all.



But in January 2017, a neuropsychologist told the couple that 35-year-old Lee was experiencing one of two things: a severe psychotic break or the beginning stages of frontotemporal dementia , rare and aggressive form of the disease that strikes people in their 30s and 40s. Lee and Kristin Holloway met at Cloudflare, the company he helped found, in 2013. They were engaged a year later Lee had been showing changes in behavior that worried Kristin and.

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