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1- ERIC
Chronic illnesses are defined as conditions lasting at least three months or longer, comes with long-lasting effects or worsen overtime. Examples of chronic illnesses are cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, stroke, and more. Self-management of a chronic illness involves monitoring symptoms, adapting to medication regimens, and keeping medical appointments and making and maintaining complex lifestyle modifications; In addition, this can reduce the cost of health care.
Chronic conditions affects not only the person enduring the symptoms, but it also affects the person loving them, residing with them, and taking care of them. Partners of people living with chronic illness face varieties of losses. Their time and energy begin to diminish as they work to pick up household chores that the ill person can no longer conduct. They may lose intimacy with their sick partner, whose emphasis on illness necessitates narrower attention to the relationship. Quality time together in a relationship may not be as it once was, as symptoms restrict activity types and levels. They may lose social connections with others, as illness requires more of a home-bound life. They may lose sexual connection as illness depletes passion. They may lose cognitive and physical well-being, as concern about their spouse’s illness drains their stability.
If I had a patient whose relationship been turned upside down to his or her illness I would advise them and their partner to find out what their strength are as a couple, what has held them together. Whatever has held them together for as long as they’ve been with one another, figure out if it can withstand the disease. Another piece of advice I’d give the sick patient and their partner would be to engage in counseling; counseling can assist in both partners coping with the illness, acknowledge that the relationship is no longer how it once was.
Since it’s normal for the partner with the chronic illness to send mixed signals, I would also advise the patient and their partner of the benefits of communicating with one another, figure out the needs of the other; Without communication, the relationship has less chance of survival (Yarber. p227, 2022). Depression is also normal in a situation like this so the couple would need to talk about what the other is feeling as shutting down can place as much strain on the relationship as the illness. At the end of it all, it’s up to the couple to face the illness together or allow it to break them up.
2- JENNIFER
Advising someone on how to handle their sexual relationships due to a chronic illness can be very challenging. Some chronic illnesses include cancer, strokes, heart diseases, diabetes, and arthritis. Although some people may believe having a chronic illness only affects themselves, it does, however, affect their partner. Take a married couple for example. The husband is undergoing chemotherapy and has been battling cancer for over a year now. In this case, the couple may face extreme psychosocial distress which might also affect their dyadic function” ( Zimmerman, 2015 April, 10). Usually, chemotherapy sucks the life out of us. We tend to feel overwhelmingly exhausted and do not have a will or want to eat let alone have sex. His wife may become upset, aggravated, and stressed out about the lack of intimacy. I would advise the wife to first try to understand how her husband is feeling and why there is a lack of intimacy. I would then speak to her husband asking him if he has felt up to being intimate at all and if so why he is not acting upon it. Is it due to exhaustion, or is it more interpersonal such as thinking he will not be able to satisfy her or does not have enough stamina to finish? I would also tell the wife in this case that intimacy can be other things that do not have to necessarily involve intercourse and there is always self-pleasure. The last thing I would explain to her is love being returned. In some cases, such as this one, some, especially women may feel as though the love she is offering her husband is not being returned. This may cause her to suffer tremendous amounts of anguish when they feel they have been rejected or ignored. (Yarber 207 2022). I would allow her to describe how she feels however, I would also tell her that her husband may indeed want to but he may be having a mental block or as I said, the chemotherapy is to tiring.