Category: Dating and Relationships
Well, I found this link when I was bored and I honestly can't remember how I found it, but it talks about sighted and blind people dating. The top ten advantages I think it was. So here's the link, and there was a good point made, so I thought I'd share it and see if it would make a good discussion.
http://nfb.org/legacy/slate/slss9908.htm
I don't agree with everything the NFB says and I'm not a member, but I thought it made a good point before she wrote the number one advantage. But would you really if you are blind, still date your partner if he/she lost their vision, or if you gained vision? I thought that was a really interesting question. so read the article, and let me know what you think.
Wow. Good article. And it definitely makes some good points. I thin I have some students I'm going to pass that along to.
if they'd left the lame top ten list out, this would have been the best article i've ever reade on the subject of dating blind vs. sighted people. sorry if I hurt the feelings of the person who wrote it.
my husband and I will be married a quarter century next march. he's my best friend. if he got his sight back, lost his leg, got his arm cut off, was dying of cancer, had a heart attack, or a lot of other stuff that would never change. Every marriage has challenges. The visual accuity of the partners involved shold be a minor one like who does the dishes and why do you put the toilet paper roll on weirdly.
I hate to say it, but if I were sighted, I think it would change the way I think about people and therefor whether or not I'd be dating someone; I think looks would matter more to me. I still have some physical preferences (like most people probably do), but not anywhere as much as I probably would if I were to be sighted. Now if I were to be with someone that I loved very much, and we loved spending time with each other and everything, that shouldn't change if I got my sight back because I would already love him. If he were to go blind, I would still accept and want to be with him, because it will just mean he'd need to learn different ways of doing things, and since I wouldn't want to depend on him for his sight, I should easily be able to do things the way I would when I don't have a sighted person there.