Category: Relationships

Love in the Time of Diabetes

Even though Valentine’s Day usually focuses on matters of the heart, today it’s all about the pancreas.  Living with diabetes doesn’t stop us from…
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Now My Husband And I Both Have Diabetes

Now My Husband And I Both Have Diabetes

I can deal with my own diabetes. This is my life. But my husband? He is the strong one, the one with no health issues who is tough and barely ever gets a cold.
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Sharing the Responsibility of a Kid with Type 1 Diabetes 1

Sharing the Responsibility of a Kid with Type 1 Diabetes

Andrew and I have since separated. Type 1 diabetes was not the cause of this decision, but more the last in a series of hurdles our marriage just couldn’t overcome. But while nothing about divorce is easy, the simple acknowledgment that we weren’t working well together anymore has actually strengthened our ability to tackle diabetes, and parenting in general, as a team.
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Wedding Planning Tips for People with Diabetes

5 Wedding Planning Tips for People With Diabetes

I have Type 1 diabetes, and I recently got married. It was a smallish wedding with 65 guests at a local farm. We rented out the cabins on site, had bouncy houses and a mechanical bull, an all you can eat roast beef dinner, and a bonfire.
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Wishing for a Diabetes Cure

A Diabetes Cure: Keeping the Hope Alive

My husband Mark and I both have type 1 diabetes. We met as counselors at diabetes summer camp, and married many years later. We knew we wanted a family, and we also knew there was a higher-than-normal possibility that our children would one day be diagnosed with diabetes. We knew this, yet we rarely spoke about it because we firmly believed that it was never going to happen to us.
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When You Love a Woman With Type 1 Diabetes

When You Love a Woman With Type 1 Diabetes

Ever try to enjoy sex while worried about your blood sugar dropping or soaring? How about having your medical devices front and center on your body? And because of the cost, and inconvenience I might add, of a device being knocked off, I always have to consider where my devices are on my body to help avoid that scenario.
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