by External Article | Aug 5, 2022 | Caring for a Romantic Partner |
Consent is extremely important and vital to all aspects of dating, relationships, sex and just about any kind of interpersonal interaction. Whether you want to cuddle, make out, or have or continue some kind of genital sex you will always need to seek and get... 
by Cori Carl | Jul 22, 2022 | Caring for a Child, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Friend, Caring for a Romantic Partner, For Friends & Family |
Scarleteen has a fantastic collection of articles on sex and disability. While I typically only share resources about care work or directed to the person whose role is primarily as the caregiver, there are so few quality resources discussing this topic that it feels... 
by External Article | Jul 22, 2022 | Caring for a Friend, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
New relationships – whether romantic, sexual, or both – are almost always exciting, no matter who you are. But for people with disabilities in relationships with neurotypical, nondisabled partners, new relationships can be filled with anxiety, including... 
by External Article | Jul 1, 2022 | Grief |
After my husband, Fernando, had been dead for about two years, I decided to fill out a profile on Match.com. Of course, on that particular evening, I’d drunk quite a bit of wine. … While my husband was alive, my erotic fantasies did not involve him, but now they... 
by External Article | Jul 22, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
“Society tends to say that if you have a chronic illness or disability, then you’re not sexual. That’s a big misconception,” Dr. Phillips tells Teen Vogue. “What we have to understand is that with a life-restricting illness, sex and intimacy can be a powerful tool for... 
by External Article | Dec 18, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
We rarely depict older people as sexual. When we do, it’s usually as a joke. The image of the sexless elder is so widespread that even medical professionals often omit older people in studies on sexuality and neglect to talk about sexual health during check ups. (Is... 
by External Article | May 17, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
I was a pretty typical teenager when it came to sex. I wanted it and wanted to know more about it. When the classes I took in school failed to tell me how sex happens for folks with disabilities, I turned to the resource kids in the ’90s turned to for everything:... 
by External Article | Jan 15, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
What if you see a hot person with a disability out and about or on one of your dating apps and you want to ask them out? Because there is not a lot of visibility or information about people with disabilities, able-bodied people often don’t know what to do or how to... by Guest Author | Dec 21, 2018 | Caring for a Romantic Partner, Planning |
I was asked by people to share what it means to be a caretaker several months ago. What does it mean, had me reflect back to the start. Twenty years ago my wife was diagnosed with borderline functioning disorder and schizophrenia. Started with revelations of sick pets... 
by External Article | Nov 20, 2018 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
I love this piece by Theresa Byrnes because of the way it reminds us that a recipient of care is not just passively waiting for our help…and that providing someone with physical support is not the same as being a good partner. When I file through “boyfriends... 
by External Article | Nov 20, 2018 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Generation X, Long Term Caregiving, Planning, Working Family Caregivers |
Three weeks after Rachel Swidenbank and Hiroki Takeuchi got married, an accident changed everything. Tune in to Death, Sex, and Money to listen to them talk about life right after the accident and discuss how things have changed and what life is like now two years... 
by External Article | Oct 16, 2018 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
Disabled folks make up the largest minority population in the world; upwards of 20% of people in the US are living with a disability. This means whether you, yourself, are disabled or not, disability touches everyone in some way or another. Our genders and sexualities... 
by External Article | Jul 20, 2017 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner |
I think it’s important to highlight that we’re both disabled in different ways; I have invisible disabilities, whereas she is legally blind and so we have two totally different kinds of access needs that we’re working toward mindfulness about. I think that disability... 
by External Article | Oct 8, 2012 | Care Work Library, Caregiving Relationships, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Generation X |
I had been physically dependent on my mother for even the most basic things for my entire life; she had to hand off that responsibility to someone new, and she was terrified. Over time, my mom had become increasingly unable to do these transfers by herself, so she and... 
by External Article | Jan 26, 2012 | 24/7 Caregiving, Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caregiving Relationships, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Long Term Caregiving, Working Family Caregivers |
I am in my early 50s, and almost a decade ago my husband suffered a traumatic brain hemorrhage, which left him with the mental capacity of a perpetual 11-year-old. I am the center of his universe, and not in a good way. I work part time, and when I go out he’s afraid... 
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