When Illness Enters Your Relationship: Potential for Growth and Renewal

Frightening diagnoses, injuries, or diseases like Alzheimer’s invade a couple’s relationship like unwelcome houseguests, changing every aspect of daily life and refusing to give their dates of departure. Whether these intrusions arrive with the sudden blast of a catastrophe –injury or serious diagnosis—or with the slow, creeping realization that something is just not right, the effects are the same: both partners need to “recalibrate” their roles and their feelings in this new reality.
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