DISEASES ALSO LEAVE FOR HIM

When Hawking was a graduate student at Cambridge, his relationship with, a friend of his sister, whom he had met shortly before his diagnosis with motor neurone disease, continued to develop. The couple became engaged in October 1964 — Hawking later said that the engagement gave him "something to live for" — and the two were married on 14 July 1965.

During their first years of marriage, Jane lived in London during the week as she completed her degree, and they travelled to the United States several times for conferences and physics-related visits. The couple had difficulty finding housing that was within Hawking's walking distance to the(DAMTP). Jane began a PhD programme, and a son, Robert, was born in May 1967. A daughter,  was born in 1970 A third child, Timothy, was born in April 1979.

Hawking rarely discussed his illness and physical challenges, even—in a precedent set during their courtship—with Jane.gly overwhelmed shoulders, leaving him more time to think about physics.Upon his appointment in 1974 to a year-long position at the   Jane proposed that a graduate or post-doctoral student live with them and help with his care. Hawking accepted, and  travelled with them as the first of many students who fulfilled this role.Hawking returned to Cambridge in 1975 to a new home and a new job, as , with whom Hawking had begun a close friendship at Caltech, arrived to work as the live-in graduate student assistant. With Page's help and that of a secretary, Jane's responsibilities were reduced so she could return to her thesis and her new interest in singing.

By December 1977, Jane had met organist Jonathan Hellyer Jones when singing in a church choir. Hellyer Jones became close to the Hawking family, and by the mid-1980s, he and Jane had developed romantic feelings for each other.^[

By the 1980s, Hawking's marriage had been strained for many years. Jane felt overwhelmed by the intrusion into their family life of the required nurses and assistants. The impact of his celebrity was challenging for colleagues and family members, and in one interview Jane described her role as "simply to tell him that he's not God." Hawking's views of religion also contrasted with her strong Christian faith and resulted in tension. In the late 1980s, Hawking had grown close to one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, to the dismay of some colleagues, caregivers and family members, who were disturbed by her strength of personality and protectiveness. Hawking told Jane that he was leaving her for Mason and departed the family home in February 1990. After his divorce from Jane in 1995, Hawking married Mason in September,declaring "It's wonderful — I have married the woman I love.

In 1999 Jane Hawking published a memoir, Music to Move the Stars, describing her marriage to Hawking and its breakdown. Its revelations caused a sensation in the media, but as was his usual practice regarding his personal life, Hawking made no public comment except to say that he did not read biographies about himself. After his second marriage, Hawking's family felt excluded and marginalised from his life. For a period of about five years in the early 2000s, his family and staff became increasingly worried that he was being physically abused.police investigations took place, but were closed as Hawking refused to make a complaint.