Women with disabilities often talk about establishing intimate relationships, but they receive strong messages that they are not suitable intimate partners. The quality of interpersonal and marital ...
Purpose is an aspect of disability that many people struggle with. Developmental psychologist Erik Erikson believed that adults’ lives are enriched by the knowledge that they are contributing to their ...
When two people with a disability fall in love, it’s not a tragedy, compromise or some inspirational story waiting to happen. It’s just love — messy, beautiful, human love. The world, however, doesn’t ...
The NC Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD) Self-Advocate Discussion Series focused their June workshop on relationships for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. According ...
In her doctoral thesis in public health, Anyango interviewed 11 women with disabilities who have suffered from violence in close relationships, interviewed 18 professionals in support institutions, ...
I’m a 40-year-old man and never married, although I was in a committed relationship for about ten years with the same woman. We didn’t marry mainly because her father didn’t approve of me. I’m ...
Like many girlies with a VPN and a Netflix account, I’m currently rewatching Sex and the City. And the further I get into the series, the more obvious it becomes that – problematic moments aside – ...