How to Love Someone with a Chronic or Invisible Illness

If you’re not helping them, you just might be hurting them

If you’re not helping them, you just might be hurting them

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I didn’t look sick. I wasn’t running a fever. There was nothing noticeably wrong with me. But something shifted in my body. Nothing felt right. When I brought it up to my then-partner, he brushed it off. Was I being dramatic? Was I piggybacking on his bad day to s…