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For Couples Raising a Medically Complex Child
Your Child's Diagnosis Changed Your Partnership. This Addresses That.
The child is the center. The partnership has to hold or the center collapses.
For the partners raising a child with a serious medical condition who have reorganized their lives around care and need to name what the partnership requires to hold.
The Name It First Experience
When a child has a serious diagnosis, the relationship often becomes invisible. All the energy goes to appointments, research, advocacy, and keeping the child okay—and the partnership lives in what's left over, which is usually not much. This workbook creates space to name what the caregiving is doing to each person and to the relationship: who is carrying more, what each person needs that isn't being said, and what the partnership has to be to survive this. The output is not a parenting plan. It is The Couples Raising a Medically Complex Child Charter.
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Sample questions
- What has your child's medical situation changed about your relationship — and what has it revealed?
- Where does the caregiving weight land unevenly between you, and have you named it directly?
- What does the relationship need that has been deferred because everything goes to the child's care?
Research basis
Pediatric chronic illness and caregiver relationship research / Gottman on managing gridlock and chronic stress / EFT on maintaining secure attachment during long-term caregiving / family systems theory (Minuchin) on triangulation in illness-centered families.
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