Cancer can make a difference in relationships that include dating, love and sexual activity. This is true whether you are single or have a partner or spouse. Will you still love me after? is an article inviting you to open up and share your emotions.
Before and during treatment, it is important to consider your sexual health, intimacy, your ability to have children, your plans for the future…
Yes, this is easy to write but sometimes hard to follow through. Cancer has this ability to eject anyone, including you, from their seat at diagnosis, but once the dust settles, you normally gain control and are back in the driver’s seat, hands-on wheel.
Most couples experience changes in their relationship when someone has cancer. Let’s face it! Being diagnosed with prostate cancer and surviving the disease can be a real physical and emotional roller coaster for you, but also for your loved ones, and more particularly, the person who shares your life.
Facing cancer together
Facing cancer together might make your relationship stronger. Uncertainty can strengthen your love and commitment. You might decide your partnership is even more important than you thought.
On the other hand, you might be scared of ending up and facing your cancer alone. For some men, the thought of being rejected after diagnosis is enough for them to put an abrupt end to a relationship, regardless of how the person in their life feels, stating it’s best this way for both of us… What? Think again if you have true feelings for this person!
Love is stronger than you think
As a general rule, if you are in a stable relationship or if you are dating the right person, you will get through the cancer journey together. Especially after treatment, you and your loved one will have to establish a new normal with regards intimacy, sex, communication and future plans.
This can include helping manage treatment-related side effects that not only have a direct impact on your life as a couple but which can also impact on your desire to be intimate, physically or emotionally. Talking about it is key!
It takes two to tango
Learning to work as a team, accepting your loved one’s influence, not taking small signs of affection for granted and helping each other, respecting the other’s opinion and problem solving through compromise are all elements that contribute to maintaining a satisfactory relationship.
In other words, you need to create a warm atmosphere that encourages each of you to speak honestly about your convictions, needs and expectations in order to reach a compromise that is satisfactory to both of you. That’s what nurturing love is all about.
The road will be bumpy during your journey, but yes, love will be there during and after with the right person.
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