u/Comfortable-Ant-8233

Hello everyone. When your SO is in a manic or hypomanic state, how do you react to their hypersexuality?

My wife is in her first hypomanic episode since we've been together after a long depressive state and her sex drive has been on the up.. and up.. and up. She's been not so subtly trying to flirt with me and initiate sexual conversations. She usually has a higher sex drive than me when she's not depressed, so this is almost like her "usual" self, but I still feel off about sleeping with her because she's hypomanic. It's really throwing me off because I cant tell what her "normal" impulses are and what may be hypersexuality due to hypomania.

Of course I love my wife and love having intercourse with her, but I think we need to have a conversation about her boundaries during hypomania. How have you guys gone about this, bipolar people and bipolar SOs?

She crashed out last night, yelled at me, hit things around her, scared the cat, hit herself. All while her family was in the other room. I stood up and left the room because I was scared of what she might do to me. All because I tried to get her to talk about what she was feeling in that moment. Im leaving her house tomorrow to go back to mine and I hope she fucking misses me as much as she says she does when shes not being horrible to me. She can have her space if she wants to push me away so bad because im fucking done. I have tried so many things and now her family finally knows how bad she treats me. She's like a mine field that we have to tiptoe around. She's set off so easily. I pray and pray that these meds start working soon because I do not see a future with someone that makes me so scared.