Please please don’t give up you owe it to yourself. Remember the diabetes is yours. You have to own it. Find someone who is supportive . if he doesn’t have diabetes he really won’t truly understand but he can be supportive if you teach him. It is better to get it out there. You’ll know from the get go whether he is willing to learn. If he is willing then hog tie him. If he’s not then pass him by and start over. But definitely don’t short change yourself. It took 3tries
I’m sorry I cut myself off. I just hope you don’t let one jurk deprive yourself of what is beautiful in life.
I’m not ashamed of my Dx and I don’t hide it from the people I date. It usually comes up on its own when I test my blood sugar before a meal, and I explain in as few words as possible that I have the “genetic” kind and it doesn’t really have an impact on the things I do, because it doesn’t. Sometimes they have some questions, which I answer nicely, and sometimes they don’t have questions and we continue on with our conversation. When I take off my shirt and they ask about my omnipod, “it’s my insulin pump” suffices. It might look a little weird, but nobody has ever commented on it beyond just asking what it is. We’re so much more than our Dx, so why not talk about something more interesting?
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Totally! Love it!
Remember, you’re not 17 anymore – you’re 33. People aren’t as superficial at this age as they are when they are teenagers. Just be yourself, and as another commenter mentioned – how a person reacts to diabetes is based entirely on how you act towards it. Don’t treat it like a dark skeleton in the closet, and they won’t be afraid of it.
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Typically when shirts are coming off the guy is pretty well focused on other things than an omnipod. I don’t think it would have even occurred to me to ask what it was… Maybe later it might pop into my mind and perhaps I’d ask then
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I was 14 when I first got a Minimed (still have it at 28) and let me tell you something: kids are hateful.
When shirts are coming off, the girl is pretty well focused on something much, shall we say larger, than an insulin pump…
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But girls always tell me size doesn’t matter?! (I certainly hope it’s obvious I’m joking)
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harmonica player here
Whats the difference between a harmonica player and a drummer?
The harmonica player only sucks half the time.
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Sucking only half the time is better that not sucking at all! 
Someone, please, help me fish my mind out the gutter into which it’s managed to slither…
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I would offer to help, but the truth is I am very comfortable there . . .
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The size of a lover’s insulin pump doesn’t matter to me, as long as it isn’t so large as to impede his gymnastic abilities or stamina. (Sam, you mean to say that not everything you’ve ever posted on this Forum was straight-up serious?!)
when I was younger I had a pretty good sized pump but was sometimes disappointed with how fast the reservoir emptied.
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But I bet it took a lot less time to recharge your pump then…
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Well that just depended how many helpers I had
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So many things go so much faster with the help of a few
buddies…
I’ve been weighing the pros and cons of going to a tubeless pump lately.
I believe that this is one of the first things that should be mentioned. In my dating career (just being funny hehe) but really one of the first things I mention on a first/second date is that I have type 1 diabetes. It is nothing to be ashamed of! That way you can see where that person stands, you could either educate them or discard them! Diabetes is nothing to be ashamed of!
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NEVER let it stop you doing anything. NEVER call it a disease, NEVER let it be a reason not to do things you CAN do. I have been Type 1 for 38 years and my whole life it has been just something else to take care of while living life. When I was dating I was always up front about it and told people what can happen with a hypo so that they knew what to do and were not surprised if it happened. My wife of 10 years is still getting her head around it but its a learning curve. To start with it was disappointing at times but it was pointed out to me that like in most situations she was not listening to me, the same as when I talk about riding my bike, motor racing, wakeboarding, sailing, the same as most wives/ husbands you get the selective hearing on. Over time she has learnt the ins and outs and has probalby saved my life on 2 occasions. There are no relationships where everything works from day 1, the same as looking after type 1 it is constant work to make it right.
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