Dating with Chronic Illness with Noa Porten
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is Noa Porten who hosts the Spooning with Spoonies podcast where she chats about dating and relationships with experts, singles, and couples from the chronic illness community. We learn how chronic illness can impact someone’s dating life and daily life, and how tools like setting boundaries and practicing open communication are crucial in the search for a lasting romantic partnership. For those who are chronically ill, Noa shares advice on how and when to comfortably communicate information about your chronic illness to someone you’re seeing. For listeners who do not have a chronic illness, we learn more about what it means to have chronic illness and how we can best support someone if and when they inform us of theirs.
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| 0:42.5 | gets you 10% off and free shipping. Without further ado, this is Noah from Spooning with Spoonies |
| 0:47.9 | podcast. We're talking about dating with chronic illness. Let's jump in. |
| 0:53.2 | I host a podcast called Spooning with Spoonies, which is about dating and relationships |
| 0:57.8 | with chronic illness. And so I interview other chronically ill people and share their stories |
| 1:05.8 | about this topic and how they navigate stuff and um kind of promote the like chronically ill love |
| 1:14.5 | stories that we don't really see in the media um and yeah i started this podcast because i'm |
| 1:22.0 | chronically ill myself um and i was like you know dating and stuff a few years back, a year or so ago. |
| 1:32.0 | And I was kind of like new to this honesty thing. |
| 1:36.6 | I had hid my chronic illness for years from my friends and everyone in my life. |
| 1:40.8 | And so I remember like I was going on a date the next day. And I just was |
| 1:47.3 | like, kind of freaking out. And I was like, well, like, what if they asked, like, why I can't eat |
| 1:51.3 | certain things or like, why I'm taking time off from college and like all these different things. |
| 1:55.6 | And so, like, I called my mom freaking out as we do. And, and, and, uh, I literally Googled how to date with chronic |
| 2:03.9 | illness. And, um, like, nothing came up. So, um, yeah, it was like, well, I, I, I just remember |
| 2:11.3 | thinking, like, I wish that I could like, I saw a few like couples and stuff on Instagram. And I just |
| 2:16.5 | wish that I could like ask them questions |
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