Living with IBD can complicate relationships with your family, friends, and significant others, both positively and negatively. There are several ways in which your disease can impact your relationships: Your family members, friends, and significant others become your caregivers when your dise...

I didn’t know much about Crohn’s disease before I met Darian and only Googled what it was. However, I feel that we learned how to be prepared early in our relationship for how Crohn’s could, and would, affect us both.  Darian and I were dating for six months when I had a sudden family death....

Two months after we started dating, Dan was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. He was extremely sick – underweight, malnourished, and experiencing crippling symptoms. The first three years after diagnosis, Dan was on medications that did little to quell his disease activity. I watched him struggle with...