The odds are slim that whoever you are dating is also a diabetic. What are your experiences with significant others and their reaction to your daily diabetes routine?
i’ve been with my BF for over a year now and unfortunately there are things he just doesn’t understand, but i think part of that is that if a person in not a diabetic themselves, they will just be unable to understand a lot of aspects of our lives. However, my Bf’s father’s girlfriend is also a type 1 diabetic, and until recently she had very poor control. unfortunately she was also just diagnosed with MS ontop of it all. But my BF… well having seen the poor control of his “stepmom” and the complications, especially when she had his little sister 6 years ago (she’s 20 yrs younger than his dad) it REALLY REALLY SCARED him. he gets very worried about me, and thats great he cares, but it gets to annoyance. “can you eat that”“you shouldn’t eat that” “what’s your BS” (that one 20+ times a day!) especially if i start getting hyper and a little loopy (the emotion! not the BS) he assumes i’m going low and tries to make me drink juice! lol his “step mom” gets very resistant apparently when she goes low… but his main concern is our future. after seeing the complications with her he is very worried about what will happen if we continue to stay together. not that we are planning in getting married anytime soon or anything like that, but we have certainly talked about the possibility of a life together. I understand his concern but i am afraid that his initial experience was very very bad with diabetes that he will continue to have a bad opinion and think that there is nothing good in the future and that i am doomed to die some horrible painful crippled death!!!