User post: Lover Behind Bars--How do you deal?

Michael Vick, former Atlanta Falcon quarterback and former dog fighting ring leader, was released from prison yesterday. He has spent the last 19 months in federal prison in Kansas. For the next two months he will reside in his Hampton, Virginia home wearing an electronic monitor and working a $10-an-hour job for a local construction company whom offered him the job.

I cannot imagine how his ex-girlfriend felt when he was incarcerated. I would not want to experience having my loved one carted off to prision. In a day in age when 1 in 75 men are in prison, many women must face this predicament.

Have you ever had to deal with or known someone
who was left behind because of a prison sentence?
How did you react? Would you stay in the relationship?
Would you leave it?