“I already can't do a whole lot and we live in Colorado, where everyone is so very active which has really hindered my dating experience. "I had this conversation with my sister Alexa about having a lot of fears around what that looks like in a dating context,” she recalls.
She continues, “I’ve also had the experience of getting to know someone and us starting to like each other – only for his mom to tell him not to get involved with a girl with a chronic illness because he would never enjoy a fun life again."īy 2021, Jacqueline was facing further life, and indeed dating, complexities as she prepared to have a feeding tube placed in her abdomen.