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Scenario

How shared illness changes roommate relationships

My roommate and I both got COVID at the same time and isolated together, and it created this intense dependency that feels weird now that we're better — we saw each other at our most vulnerable and now normal roommate boundaries feel awkward to reestablish.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimate caregiving between non-intimate people creates temporary bonds that complicate returning to previous boundaries.

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Acute illness and recovery?”

Peri

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