001. The Conversation.
Your mind probably went to the pop culture reference of defining the relationship-- "DTR", "what are we", "we need to talk"--etc but nope, not that conversation. As riveting as I am sure those conversations can be, I'm talking the conversation that entails telling someone something of great magnitude. I don't know say like, "hey well I have a serious medical condition and I'll probably die TWENTY years too soon". How and when is that appropriate? Do you make light of the situation? Do you try and express how you feel about said condition? I promise you, although all those things go through your head, it almost always gets weird and awkwardly emotional. Every time I tell someone about having a chronic illness I'm tasked with simultaneously doing THREE things: FIRST....Console them about me being sick. This perplexes me every time. As much as I empathize with the fact that you have to deal with what I'm going through I re