Dating with a chronic illness with Jillian Tuchman
Jillian on Love
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The Complexity of Relationships
If you can be in a relationship, whether it's in the dating phase or well beyond that, then you don't actually identify as the illness. When we are only our illness, we are in a state of victimhood. It also leads to disconnection because everything that is going to be filtered through that lens will be a dichotomous to joy, love, connection, fun, hope. We're all dealing with something and what happens sometimes is rigidity comes into it. I used to say unless I was eating blueberries from like blind nuns? So if someone wanted to be out at a concert, which is completely reasonable, past like 930? Right! That wasn't living
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