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If you have T1D, have you ever dated or married someone who also has T1D?
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No, I was the one who had diabetes
I fell in love with an insulin-dependent Type 2 20 years ago. There’s something terribly romantic about taking Lantus together at the end of the day.
Such a cute tale!
Already married over forty years when I was diagnosed.
I never knew of anyone who had diabetes, type 1 or 2 before I was married. I became a T1D after I was married.
I answered “no.” I don’t think my girlfriend at diabetes children’s camp when I was 13 counts. While I think there would be a lot I would have in common with a partner with T1D, I wouldn’t want that to be what brought us together, and I don’t think it would keep us together.
Greg! That’s interesting … I never thought of the crushes from camp! I went to Camp Needlepoint in WI and Camp Sweeney in TX. That was decades ago! Where did you go?
went on one date with a T1D. she had been dx’d as a child (I was dx’d at 43) so she was very old school. she ragged on me during the entire date about my menu choices, my carbs estimation for my shot and she lost her mind when I ordered a Corona! punchline is that my sugar was less than 150 when I went to sleep.
When I was married, diabetes was not in the picture at all. All I knew was an uncle who died in 1929 because he refused injections. I developed LADA in my 40’s, followed by my husband with Type 2, then my two daughters who had PCOS and Type 2, then my son with Type 2. Enough.
I am married to someone with Type 2.
My husband was diagnosis at age 3 and I was diagnosed at age 4.
I dated someone, but I was/am not out of the closet about having T1 so he didn’t know that I have T1
I have been married since 1985. My wife Susan does not have either type 1 or 2 diabetes, but rather type 3 diabetes- spouse or mate of someone with T1D…:) She has been my guardian for night lows, though she has rarely had to intervene since I started CGM in 8-2006.
Do you mean she has Alzheimer’s? Ot is another disorder classified as Type 3 diabetes? Thank you! I apologize if this is prying!
Met her because of her request for help and her lack of control (she asked to meet me). Other issues were involved so dating lasted just a time or two, but her doctor “is a prominent diabetic specialist, she has the most advanced closed-loop system” considering her lack of control.
My child is too young to date. An answer option like this should be considered when designing the question. That’s one of the reasons why 91% of respondents said “no”.
Yes. It was one of the very few “good” experiences of my D life. Also one of the harder ones too