Has E hurt your ability to have a relationship?

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Yes. I have only sought out partners who could be cool with me. I am divorced and it has been hard. Now divorced for 4 years and i did find an amazing woman that knows all about me and is not afraid of seizures and i want to spend my life with. We are good together. So, for the record. It is a good life and i did wait to tell anyone until i felt safe. (quite a while). but it has worked.
 
My E doesn't hurt any relationship I have. I have punched/kicked/slapped/humped my wife during a simple or complex partial in bed, but that is the worst. Maybe its because I have fantastic friends, because I do, but the most interfering times are when someone asks, "well what do we do if something happens?" Sometimes they ask "Are the flashing lights bothering you?" LOL. I just laugh that one off.

For a while I couldn't drive, so my family and friends helped me out. It still didn't effect any relationship.

If it did, I wouldn't see it as a relationship I care to want. Sorry if that is a bit blunt. After working 15 hours straight I tend to get that way. :P

Especially in a romantic or spousal relationship. You are who you are and if epilepsy is causing that big of a problem, there is someone out there better for you.

Take this with a grain of salt, because I'm tired, annoyed, and am going on 16 hours of work. :P
 
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