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Dating With Narcolepsy

How does narcolepsy impact your dating life, and what strategies have you found helpful? How can potential partners help someone with narcolepsy feel supported and understood?
For those in relationships, what tips do you have for dating with narcolepsy? How do you maintain intimacy and connection while managing your narcolepsy symptoms?

  1. Yes

  2. Helping us slow down and take the rest we need. Your partner seeing the tired when no one else can is very validating!

  3. Yes, but it is my newly married life. Some days , I just can’t drag myself out of bed until late afternoon when my patient husband has been up since early. I want to get up and fix breakfast ; I’m amazed when I can get up to prepare lunch for us.

    1. Congratulations on your marriage, ! Was your husband aware of your narcolepsy and its impact on you before you got married? Does he seem to be supportive and empathetic? Wishing you the very best. - Lori (Team Member)

  4. So............ Who is willing and able to start a dating service for Narcoleptics???

    1. Hi . That's a huge undertaking that would require a lot of technical, busines and legal knowledge. I'm not sure you'd find anyone here with the time, the skills and the money to do it, but you never know. - Lori (Team Member)

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