HOPE CHESTS - Past Meetings
How Does/Did Breast Cancer Affect Your Family and Friend Relationships
Dee Jones Adams, PhD, LPC, NCC
E. Pete Adams, JD
Intimacy and Sharing
- Have family members been able to talk about the breast cancer experience? About fears? Right away or later?
- Do you fell you can share your fears or do you fell you have to be "up"
- How has breast cancer affected your marraige or couple relationship?
- Has breast cancer brought you together or been a wedge between you?
Emotions
- What emotions did family members demonstrate through the breast cancer diagnosis, etc.?
- What was/is NOT said - and maybe should have been?
- Do you feel the breast cancer diagnosis inhibited your expression of normal emotions, such as anger/displeasure etc.?
Sexuality
- Have you been able to talk about how breast cancer has affected your sex life?
- How do you deal with changes to your sex life?
- Have you ever expressed grief over the losses in your sex life?
General
- How have older children, younger children, parents reacted to breast cancer?
- How have friends reacted to the breast cancer?
- In dating, dating when do you think a single breast cancer survivor should tell about breast cancer?
- What advice about family/couple relationships would you give husbands, family members, significant others just hearing of a breast cancer diagnosis?
A video tape of this presenation is available through The Hope Chests |
