Welcome to Love and Diabetes

This course is for adults living with diabetes or prediabetes. It is also for the people who love them. You might live with diabetes yourself.

Or you might love someone who does. Either way, you belong here. Questions about your own health are best taken to your care team.

Your relationships are part of daily life. Diabetes shows up at home too, in blood sugar checks, shared dinners and quiet evenings.

Meals, checks and medicines take time, and the people beside you feel that too. Diabetes can change how close you feel, so this course covers it.

Intimacy means closeness, through talk, touch, affection and sex. Feeling nervous about it is common and nothing to be ashamed of. You do not need to feel ready before you begin.

Start with whichever lesson fits you best. You can come back to the others whenever you like.

Key takeaways

• This course is for adults with diabetes or prediabetes and the people who love them.
• Relationships are a real part of daily life with diabetes.
• Nerves about intimacy are common, so you can start wherever you feel ready.

Try it

Today, read the chapter titles and pick the one to open first. Jot down one question you hope it answers.