I agree with everything Bram said about communication. I will say though that for me, while I do make effort to communicate my needs, limitations and abilities to my husband what I don't talk about to him is my pain. There are times that he will catch me wincing, hear a moan, see me catch a step from a cramp or something similar. He'll simply ask "pain?" and I"ll answer "yes" and we move on. He knows I don't want to talk about it because feeling pain all the time is enough, I don't also want to talk about it. I prefer activities that attempt to take my mind off of it. So, while we communicate about everything about and around CRPS that we need to, we don't talk about the pain unless it is something that somehow is relevant and needs to be discussed. Not everyone feels the same way, but not everyone should be pushed to discuss it either.