The psychosocial consequences following a stroke are known to be challenging, influencing the stroke survivors’ ability toparticipate in and carry out the taken-for-granted roles and activities in family life. This study explored how living with theconsequences of stroke impacted on family life in the late recovery phase, that is, six months or more after stroke onset. Twentytwostroke survivors aged 20–61 years were interviewed in-depth six months to nine years after stroke onset. The interviews wereanalyzed applying a narrative, hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The findings revealed challenges that varied with time,from an initial struggle to suffice in and balance the relationships and roles within the family early after the stroke, towards a moreresigned attitude later on in the stroke trajectory. The struggles are summarized in two main themes: “struggling to reenter thefamily” and “screaming for acceptance.” Nonestablished people living with stroke and stroke survivors in parental roles seem to beparticularly vulnerable. Being provided with opportunities to narrate their experiences to interested and qualified persons outsidethe home context might be helpful to prevent psychosocial problems
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