Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: How did you tell your friends/partner?

I explain I have a chronic stomach disorder and there are a lot of things I can't eat or else I get sick. I usually get a few questions then, which I answer as tactfully as I can. My current boyfriend knew that I couldn't eat certain things (the way he asked me out was he came to my dorm room(at the time) door and asked me to ask him out on whatever my version of coffee was; we ended up taking a walk for over an hour and just talking the next night once I got up the guts to ask him. But the point is that he knew that I couldn't go have coffee because of my IBS, he just didn't know at the time that's what it was). He knows all about it now, we've been dating for a year and a half, we just gradually talked about it as things came up. My roommates all know about it, and sometimes can keep track of things I can't eat. Just explain it as the situation arises, explaining as much as you're comfortable with.

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Melissa
Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent

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