Dating someone with a chronic illness is not the most natural type of dating.
Things might get hard to handle often, especially if you don’t know how to help your partner going through their illness.
Someone with chronic illness has more ups and downs than any other person, and the worst is that chronic disease does not happen once in a while; it happens very often.
However, with a little bit of care and understanding, everything will get into its place.
If you are dating someone with a chronic illness, you possibly went through some stages of their day, and this is how you should react best:
Don’t ever say to your partner that their illness is cute, or it’s a cause for having a better relationship.
Illness is never cute, and a person can never make a relationship more romantic if he is sick.
We are used to watching those romantic movies where one of the protagonists gets sick, and love happens, and everything seems and feels better after it.
People with chronic illnesses are already tired of being in pain almost daily, and for sure, they don’t want their disease to be the reason why a relationship is in a proper function.
Get to understand your partner’s illness.
One of the easiest ways to go through and help your partner with their illness is to understand their disease.
By understanding their illness, you will learn how it affects them, how they feel while being in pain, or the ill effects. Learn about their medications because many of them also have side effects.
Chronic illness is not going to go away, and it is something that will be there forever.
Being able to learn all of this for your partner, it helps a lot because they feel like they can depend on you.
Fight the bad days.
A person that has chronic illness will go through several bad days. The bad days happen mostly after a disease’s high pain, a wrong diagnosis, needing help for everything on a clumsy day. All of this brings into the ill person brain, a bad feeling. This will make them go angry and sometimes can go out of self-control. They were being out of restraint, such as not managing the will of someone helping them, being mad for little things or sayings. Bad days as these can seriously affect your partner’s emotions and feelings because there is nothing they can do to take their sickness away. But staying beside them through the bad days will only make your relationship stronger.
For a non chronically ill person, dating someone with chronic illness can be scary and not attractive. All the life we fantasy for happy and healthy living, and all of a sudden, you are dealing with something that you have to fight daily with your partner. It can be exhausting, scary, and heartbreaking most of the time.
Being with someone that has to fight for their life will all their energy is seeing from the first row how real fighters look like. Strictly, you can see someone doing their best to feel better and trying to make other people around them feel good. People with chronic illnesses don’t want to get other people worried about them; they hate that.
So if you are dating someone with chronic illness, keep in mind that they are dealing with a real battle.