When Your Romantic Partner Has a Serious Disease: 5 questions to help you decide what to do

Perhaps nothing tests a relationship more than a serious illness.

I’ve seen clients react in the full range of ways: from stopping their life to care for their partner to divorcing him. Many people choose a middle ground: providing some emotional support, taking the partner to doctors’ appointments, handling some of the day-to-day, but not so much as to seriously impede their life. They often hire help.

How do you figure out what’s right for you? Perhaps the questions I ask in my Psychology Today article today will help: