I help you?'” he suggested.
Or, if you see that someone you love with diabetes needs to make healthier lifestyle choices, offer to join them as opposed to telling them what to do. For example, ask them if they want to exercise with you.
Paula Trief, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., said a “we’re in this together” attitude may help the person with diabetes and their partner.
Whatever type of diabetes a person has, “there’s a fair amount of anxiety about what the future holds, and a fear of complications,” Trief said.
But, when partners collaborate, it can