Having a healthy relationship is hard work even in the best of times. MS can make it even harder. The Relationship Matters program exists to help couples minimize the impact of MS on their lives.
Learn how to:
- Improve communication and problem solving skills
- Have greater fulfillment in your relationship
- Manage MS as a team, and
- Help your relationship thrive.
When you know how to take charge as a couple, MS doesn’t have to rule your relationship.
Through a series of interactive classes, the Relationship Matters program helps couples learn and apply skills to deal with common relationship challenges:
Communication and Problem Solving: Facing Opportunities and Challenges Together
- Enhance your communication and conflict resolution skills through this fun and interactive program. Learn how to effectively communicate on even the most difficult issues.
Adapting: Financial Planning for a Life with MS Together
- MS can be an expensive disease. Learn how to plan for your financial future as a couple through classes in budgeting, debt management, and building your savings.
Intimacy: Enriching Your Relationship
- Learn how to talk about the tough issues that can get in the way of true intimacy. You will learn creative ways to address and overcome these issues in your relationship.
Staying Connected: Having Fun Together
- MS can interfere with the things you enjoy doing together as a couple. Learn how to keep the fun in your relationship in new and adaptive ways.
Career Choices: Managing Your Options Together
- Employment concerns cause concern in any relationship – MS can exacerbate those worries. Learn how to manage potential employment issues as a couple.
I would like to register for Relationship Matters.
I would like to see a list of upcoming workshops.
I would like to see a list of upcoming teleconferences.
I would like to register for a Relationship Matters online course.
I would like more information about Relationship Matters.
For more information call: 1-800-344-4867 or email: couplesprogram@nmss.org
Relationship Matters when MS moves in.
Funding for this project was provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Grant: 90FE0090.