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Readers Respond: When is the best time to tell your date that you have MS?
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Updated September 30, 2009

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Dating can be one of the most stressful things in life. Here you are, trying to figure out how you feel about someone, while you know that they are analyzing you in the very same way. Adding a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the knowledge that if this relationship develops you will have to disclose this information at some point gives a whole new dimension to the normal anxiety around dating. I think that it is better to get the "I have MS" speech out of the way early, but others might have a different opinion. What do you think? What has happened to you in the past? What advice would you give others? Share Ideas and Stories

When to tell? In the begining!!

It's really hard to find another relationship once you have MS. I know some already give up their hopes. Foe me, I still wish I will meet the right one someday. I think honesty is the best policy all the time. And I also think to tell my date in the beginning will save more time for MS people. I just diagnosed as MS before I planned to get married(2008 May), and she cannot stand my situation. It's not her fault. And I have no right to ask her being with me. I hope the one is truly want to be with me. Who leaves is not the one for you. Keep going!!
—Guest Jimmy

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