I want to know more about negotiation of disabled romantic relationships, thanks!

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Relational partners need both autonomy and connection. Therefore, disabled/able-bodied couples need to negotiate satisfying levels and types of reciprocal support. This negotiation could involve agreeing to attribute equal value to physical, emotional, and mental forms of support, deciding to obtain volunteers and/or hire outside help for certain tasks, and may also entail transformation of meaning in which the contrasting elements of a given contradiction cease to be regarded as antithetical to one another. For example, a couple might reframe “assistance with bathing” as “bathing together,” or they may reframe assistance with transportation to work from “dependency” to “carpooling.”