Many blogs have come and gone that started out promising, offering support to spouses of those who suffer from mental illness, but end in the spouse eventually leaving the partner. This is not a resource.
There might have been some good points in those blog posts, but ultimately, whatever the partner was doing did not lead to success. Other blogs are written by professionals who work with clients who have mental illness but who don’t actually live with a sufferer. Two completely different situations. Still, other blogs are written by parents of children with mental illness. This cannot apply to marriages. For one, your spouse is still your spouse, not a child. For another, there’s more incentive to stay with a child; society does not look kindly on a parent abandoning a child, where it’s easier to forgive a spouse for leaving her husband. If your goal is to stay married, none of these options are for you.
What you need is someone who has found a way to make the marriage work, despite my husband’s wild mood swings courtesy of rapid-cycling bipolar disorder and his disorganized way of thinking, shoot-off-the-hip impulsivity, and difficulty in reading others’ emotions as part of his severe attention deficit disorder. Someone who would say that while the relationship has some bumps and bruises, it is still a happy marriage.
Rita Brhel is a writer/editor, and works for Attachment Parenting International, www.attachmentparenting.org. She married her college sweetheart in 2002 who, at the time, had undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder and later developed Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder. They are happily married, have three kids, and live near Fairfield, Nebraska USA.
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