Relationships and family life

Talking with friends and family

Multiple sclerosis (MS) can affect personal relationships in many ways but it need not interfere with developing and maintaining connections with other people, including friends, family, partners and work colleagues.

Speaking with children and teenagers

MS affects not only you, but those around you as well. When is the right time to discuss your MS with your children? How should you open the conversation?

Telling people about your MS

When you have just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), you will need to think about who to tell, when to tell them and how much to tell them.

Someone I know has MS - information sheet

If someone you know has recently been diagnosed with MS, you may like to know more about the condition. Someone I know has MS aims to support a wide range of people including the partner of someone recently diagnosed with MS, the wider family, friends and work colleagues.

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10 July 2023

Intimate relationships and MS

MS symptoms can sometimes get in the way of starting a new relationship or developing intimacy with an existing partner. A relationship counsellor has some words of wisdom for dealing with this.