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Relationships: How do you form and maintain them when ill?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Sep 14, 2023 | Replies (76)Comment receiving replies
As @mir123 suggests, communication is paramount. Whether someone is "well" or "sick", relationships can be a challenge. Engaging with one or more people can work out just fine, but remember that we as humans are constantly changing/evolving. A situation that seems right today may not be right in a month's time, and vice versa. All parties need to feel heard, cared for, and willing to work on the relationship, to keep it healthy. It's not always easy, nor is there a manual for how to do it!
Ginger
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I have seen the temporality in myself. Some things worked so well for me a few months ago, and now they are just not for me. There are other things I have sworn off in the past, then boom, I end up needing one of those things. Life and change are an education.
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Thank you Ginger,
This is helpful. And yes, even healthy people struggle with relationships, being sick just adds extra dimensions.
Maybe the lack of willingness to really communicate and keep working on the relationship is a foundational problem. I have seen that a lot. Sometimes only one party is willing to do the work. Other times, people decide that if it is meant to be, it will work out. What ever works out on its own without input and being nurtured?