chronic illness

[Onwardclimb]

Would you get involved with a person who has a chronic illness/disease? Why or why not?

God bless,
Onwardclimb

 

[klewlis]

I think it would depend on the disease... and on the person.

 

[wvmtnkid]

I have a chronic illness. I would hope that it wouldn't discourage someone from getting involved with me.

 

[Injured Soldier]

A chronic sickness or disease wouldn't stop me from dating or liking someone. I try to look at the person inside, besides I've got some big problems with my health too, so it would be kind of hypocritical of me to use that yardstick to measure others. Kinda like George from Seinfeld when he gets the toupee and then refuses to date Kramer's friend because she's bald.

I thought about something tonight that I thought I'd add, hence the edit. For Christians, when we get to heaven we will be perfect, and all the labels (disabilities, diseases, denominations, problems, sin) will be gone. So for a Christian, refusing to like, date, and even marry a person with a disability or chronic sickness is similar to a non-Christian refusing to like, date, and marry a person because they have a cold. This life is but a blink of an even greater eternity, so a chronic illness for a Christian, while it definately is hard to get by with, isn't a permanent state that the non-Christian would see it as.

But I guess it's all what God wants, isn't it?

 

[sOuLifieD]

Would you get involved with a person who has a chronic illness/disease? Why or why not?

God bless,
Onwardclimb

As in dating/relationship?
If he was the one God had for me, or if God wanted me to be involved with him, absolutely. If it was God's will, there's nothing that wouldn't stop me from getting involved with someone, because God knows what's good for me, and as long as he went along with my other standards then yes.
It would be hard, but I wouldn't enter into any relationship without praying about it and recieving a "yes", and obviously God has plans for good and not evil, to give me a hope and a future, and I trust in that.

 

[goodgirl]

well, it kind of depends and it kind of doesn't depend. Some things would make me really stop and think. I dated a man who had type-a diabetes. It was very well-controlled, but knowing it can be hereditary, and that it greatly shorten a person's lifespan, made me think about if I wanted that for my kids. I also had to think about if I wanted to be an early widow, or to take care of someone who'd lost his mobility. Anyway, I eventually broke up w/him but that was just one part of the problem. If I had really loved him, I think I'd have been able to do it. But definitely it can put a check in the "negatives" column, if it's serious.

 

[fishstix]

Would you get involved with a person who has a chronic illness/disease? Why or why not?

God bless,
Onwardclimb

Is it contagious? That would be a major deciding factor.