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Alternative Constructions of Partner Relationships in Chronic Illness: A Qualitative Study Exploring Concurrent Relationships
Ist Teil von
Journal of family issues, 2022-10, Vol.43 (10), p.2531-2555
Ort / Verlag
Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Chronic illness can have a profound impact on couples’ relationships. In dealing with relational changes, new constructions and forms of relationships may arise. In the context of a larger grounded theory study on relational processes and practices in couples faced with chronic illness, this article focuses on concurrent relationships as an alternative form of relationship construction which embodies an additional relationship existing parallel to that of the couple confronted with chronic illness. Based on qualitative interviews with a subsample of five persons within the larger study, conditions for the development and characteristics of concurrent relationships are presented. From an individual and shared life questioned by chronic illness, concurrent relationships are formed in the attempt to be able to live on together in a new partner relationship and a continued care relationship. This can lead to new constructions of relationships, family life, and social relations in everyday life.