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#66. How Chronic Illness Changes Your Relationship & Why Being Treated Like a Patient Keeps You Flaring
Somewhere between the diagnosis and now, your partner stopped being your partner and became your carer. They drive you to the appointments, take the heavy bags out of your hands, check in every few hours and answer for you at dinner. You're grateful. You're also lonely in a way you can't say out loud, because how do you complain about someone who's helping you?
For women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, this shift at home is one of the emotional patterns sitting underneath physical symptoms that rarely gets talked about. When home becomes the one place you're always the patient…
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