Love, marriage, and disability -- four ways to keep your relationship strong ...

22.02.12

More than twenty-five years ago, I married my wife shortly after she survived a horrific car accident. To date she has endured more than seventy operations (fifty on my watch, so far), the amputation of both legs, and nearly $9 million dollars in medical bills. Through this continuing ordeal, we have had countless hospital stays during birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays …including Valentine’s Day.

Raising a family and keeping love alive in a marriage with a spouse who is constantly sick or in severe pain is an extreme challenge; one with many casualties. 

The divorce rate in couples with a disability in the family hovers around 90% and relationships with a disability or chronic medical condition face significant pressures on the love holding the marriage together. 

Relationships that endure through these types of challenges seem to all share four characteristics which allow love to transcend the brutal circumstances. 

1. Separate the person from the pain

Source: Fox News