Dating with Chronic Illness
(and dating + relationships, in general)
Love. It’s undefinable. It’s a noun, an adjective, a verb. How we talk about it changes with every person and every day and every single conversation.
As a single woman with much journalistic observation applied to her dating world, I foster conversations about loving someone with a chronic illness and love in general so that we can love loyally, vulnerably, honesty, fully, and bravely.
Articles and Essays
Please Don’t Call Me Pretty, I’m Just Sick and Skinny
Authority over our bodies disappears when one joins the chronic illness community. Interviews, surveys, and popular culture help make some sense of this, in Bust Magazine.
I Can’t Have Children - But I Don’t Want To Anyway
We can be unapologetic in our desire to not procreate—even if we could easily take the out and use illness as an excuse. I explore in this short essay for Elle.
My Chronic Illness Has Cost Me More Than Just My Health
Dating with chronic illness requires us to prepare for the dating scene in some ways you might not expect. This essay in Cosmopolitan addresses some of that unique navigation.
How I Learned to Date With a Chronic Illness
It’s hard to date when your body can betray you at any time — this essay in Cosmopolitan has chronically ill people reaching out to me in community to this day.
Podcast Episodes
“Navigating the dating scene can prove dicey for all of us, but the process is often even more formidable for those living with physical disabilities. After leaving a long-term relationship, writer and podcast host, Jacqueline Raposo, found herself traversing a daunting dating landscape—one made exponentially more complex due to chronic illness. In this episode, Jacqueline and I take a deep dive into the unique challenges of dating with physical limitations, including—how to construct a dating profile (i.e. should you mention your chronic illness?), the anxiety of wondering if (when?) your physical restrictions may prove “too much” for your partner, chronic illness and identity, and how to manage breakups and the disappointment of knowing that sometimes a relationship dissolves for one reason—the disability. Join us to hear how Jacqueline dated—and fell in love!—with chronic illness.”
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“Let’s be honest about how we use our technology. While it’s super philanthropic and savvy to say food tech is all about saving the people and the plant with some disruptive start-up business, more than 15% of people are using it to find dates online* and that number is on the rise. One in five online daters – have asked someone for help with their profile. This episode of Tech Bites x Love Bites is for you 15-percenters. Love Bites co-host Jacqueline Raposo joins us in-studio to share her unfiltered look and pro-tips on dating in the digital age. (*Stats from the Pew Research Center. A treasure trove of information.)”
Want me to write about love & dating for your website, speak on your podcast, or do at talk at your event?