Different schedules, stress levels, and mindsets can create gaps. Medico life’s intensity often feels isolating to non-medicos, challenging mutual understanding.
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As per an article in VeryWellMind in March 2025, compassion fatigue is a common concern among many healthcare professionals. It can result in a pessimistic attitude and apathy in personal relationships. However, I do not agree with the topic of discussion today, primarily due to the use of the wrong adjective—most!
As per a BMJ article, “Divorce among physicians and other healthcare professionals in the United States: analysis of census survey data,” published in February 2015, 24.3% of physicians had ever been divorced. This was lower than nurses (33%), healthcare executives (30.9%), lawyers (26.9%), and nonhealthcare professionals (35%).
However, the impact of long working hours, burnout and stress, delayed life milestones, and specialty risk (psychiatrists have the highest divorce rate among healthcare providers – 51%) cannot be overlooked in these professionals.
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Due to lack of time and understanding by the another non medico partner. Work pressure also the main reason ,because of lack of time in relationship .And in nowadays relationship needs time and care.
Compassion exhaustion happens when medical professionals feel emotionally tired after caring for many patients.I have felt this during my teleconsultations after being empathetic to patients and giving them your energy which is your work but it leads to exhaustion. So its better to take care of yourself too in this process like taking coffee breaks , as simple as it sound just doing situps at you chair because you too deserve a break.
I’ve seen some really great medico-non medico couples around me. And after talking to them what I’ve concluded is that it all boils down to understanding, respect for each other’s professions and compatibility between the two!
Mostly due to long work hour, emotional exhaustion and high stress. These all factors are lead to very poor communication and lack of time with partner. Healthcare professionals also struggle in relationship due to frequent shift changes and night duties. Overtime this all factors are leads to imbalance between professional and personal life.
Healthcare professionals are so involved in their work (long hours), they almost forgot they have a life beyond their duty. The duty towards their family, friends and even themselves.
I think hectic schedules between both parties could be a major cause. Both parties may find it exhausting to fit in each other’s schedule
Medical careers take years of high intense studying and training. Daily work stress and tiredness often take away their family time.
Being in the healthcare sector is no joke. It requires years of training and dedication. Following that, they are required to work long hours to sustain themselves and their family. It’s not just physically draining but mentally too and that I believe could be one of the reasons why they fail.
Due to medicine not teaching life lessons or not able to balance the life. Failed relation are often outcome of immaturity and frustration. There is life beyond medicine
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When it comes to relationship then here prioritizing communication is very important ,if we medico professionals can set boundaries between work life and personal life then it could be possible to have long term relationships.
Medical professionals are committed to long duty hours which eventually drains them, putting them under emotional and mental stress. They often lack time , this eventually puts them in a situation where they are unable to manage their relationships .
Healthcare professionals are committed to their duties in changing peoples health for better and their time is very much valuable as they can save lives of many. They use their time wisely. And coming to relationships it requires spending time with each other. when they cant manage work & relationship it turns to a failed relationship.
Healthcare professionals often have failed relationships. This can be attributed to their long working hours leaving no room for work-life balance. They prioritize their jobs because it impacts not only individuals health but overall health of the community. The solution would involve state implementing policies for improving doctor:patient ratio, so that healthcare professionals can also excel in their personal life.
Major problem of medicos are that they barely have time for anything other than their job.
I have seen otherwise, but in most cases it’s because of miscommunication and lack of patience to understand what one’s going through. If that can be managed well then everything will work smoothly.
Certainly yes! A good point to be noted here is the understanding between couples that help them to be in a positive love relationship even after facing hurdles in their relationship. Every relationship starts with respecting each other and if not you are probably just looking for a tag of being in a relationship and not actually feeling the real essence of being in a happy relationship. It’s been a while I have been looking at couples who tries to pretend to know each other well while they just not there feeling right for each other.
The main poles of relationship is trust, understanding, communication and belive that yes this can work! The ultimate reason to be in a relationship is not that you love your partner, everyone does…it’s the respect the inclusiveness you feel when you are around them! Love and understanding the keywords to be in healthy loving and supportive relationship.
It’s not about failure, it’s about giving some level of compassion to the love/relationship as you are giving to your career. It’s about making even little a bit of efforts, or getting to see each other, talk to each other, even when one’s busy. It’s about letting go before even trying due to fear of not able to give time to feeling the emotions. According to me, these type of relationships are breath of fresh air, we just need to give a bit more effort for it to work.
If there is mutual understanding between the partners then the relationship can work smoothly. The relationship in healthcare professionals often see failure due to the time constraint of the individuals.