My wife and I are trying to navigate her chronic illness together but I think my attempts to be supportive sometimes feel controlling to her and her need for independence sometimes feels like rejection to me. We love each other but we're both struggling with how to be partners when one person's reality is so much more constrained.
More people experience this than they realize.
Illness redistributes power and agency in relationships in ways that require conscious renegotiation of care and autonomy.
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