u/Double-Invite-2191

It’s been slightly over a week now since my wife decided she wanted to separate. She insisted I’ve done nothing wrong and wants to be friends. We have been in a relationship since young teens and are mid twenties now and she has been struggling with never having existed as her own individual.

Over the last week she has been staying on and off at our apartment and her mom’s house due to her job being so close to our apartment. When she is over she wants to cuddle and last night she woke up in the middle of the night and came to find me in the living room to ask me to come to bed because she didn’t like waking up and I wasn’t there. She even said the words “it’s not forever” the other day when I was upset about it.

This has been very confusing for me logically I know this is whiplash for me and I’m not healing or getting anywhere. And now I feel like it’s working me into being paranoid where I get so anxious about her finding someone else at her job or there already being someone else even though I have no hard evidence of this at all.

I’m not sure what to do on paper I know this isn’t good but emotionally after eight years it’s really hard to shake this anxiety and say she needs to stop making me feel like things are both good and bad.

Hello everyone I have posted before, for any background information refer to those if wanted. It’s been slightly over a week now since my wife decided she wanted to separate. She insisted I’ve done nothing wrong and wants to be friends. We have been in a relationship since young teens and are mid twenties now and she has been struggling with never having existed as her own individual.

Over the last week she has been staying on and off at our apartment and her mom’s house due to her job being so close to our apartment. When she is over she wants to cuddle and last night she woke up in the middle of the night and came to find me in the living room to ask me to come to bed because she didn’t like waking up and I wasn’t there. She even said the words “it’s not forever” the other day when I was upset about it.

This has been very confusing for me logically I know this is whiplash for me and I’m not healing or getting anywhere. And now I feel like it’s working me into being paranoid where I get so anxious about her finding someone else at her job or there already being someone else even though I have no hard evidence of this at all.

I’m not sure what to do on paper I know this isn’t good but emotionally after eight years it’s really hard to shake this anxiety and say she needs to stop making me feel like things are both good and bad.

My wife (married for one year together eight) is Bipolar and over the last six months she keeps going in and out of having this idea of just needing to start a whole new life. When she talks about these ideas she says stuff like “I just see in 10 years I’ll be in a random town and I won’t have a job and just have fun” I can usually rationalize her out of these feelings.

Over the past week she has rapidly gone from not being sure to wanting a break to being sure she wants divorce. She assures me I have done nothing wrong and while I’m the narrator here I would agree. There is no evidence of another person either as far as I can tell.

Does anyone else experience these feelings of fleeing due to Bipolar or have a partner who does?

I am wondering if this sounds like it is a manic episode?

My wife (married for one year together eight) is Bipolar and over the last six months she keeps going in and out of having this idea of just needing to start a whole new life. When she talks about these ideas she says stuff like “I just see in 10 years I’ll be in a random town and I won’t have a job and just have fun” I can usually rationalize her out of these feelings.

Over the past week she has rapidly gone from not being sure to wanting a break to being sure she wants divorce. She assures me I have done nothing wrong and while I’m the narrator here I would agree. There is no evidence of another person either as far as I can tell.

Does anyone else experience these feelings of fleeing due to Bipolar or have a partner who does?

Good morning,

I went to the Valvoline on N broadway this morning to get an oil change and battery tested. They only asked me what oil I wanted after I watched them already put oil in the car. I was also not given my battery testing results until I pulled into the parking lot and had to call someone over to ask. The employee told me it was 100% all good which I felt was skeptical after the previous experience mentioned. Driving five minutes down the road to Auto-zone showed the battery level at “failure”. I called customer care of course and was eventually sent to the locations manager who turns out was the person who did the service and conveniently he reviews the footage and found he did nothing wrong.

Do you all have a recommendations on where to take this issue from here? Or do have you have a similar experience?

Hello everyone, I am worried for my wife. We do not get to take her to the doctor often due to having no insurance and no financial means to get her insurance. We went to an urgent care for an unrelated issue but we try to kind of check all the boxes while there to save from other visits.

One of the medication prescribed was Pristiq for her anxiety and depression this was after telling the doctor she has bipolar 2. Only after she has been taking it for a week as her only medicine did we stumble upon the risks of taking it with her bipolar and the issues stopping it.

Now we feel stuck between two bad choices. I will say she has had no bad side effects in her time taking it but we are still worried. Is there anything we can do or any chance nothing bad happens at all?