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I have a bi-polar spouse who wants to work things out and move back in. What can I do?
My husband is an undiagnosed bi-polar person. He moved out of the house about two months ago after years of threatening during his emotional cycles several time a year to leave. Now that he has had a taste of what it would be like to not be married and have someone do everything for you and put up with you, he wants to move back in and work things out. He says that he is sorry and knows that he was wrong and wants to do marriage counseling. Now for my side of the story. I have put up with this behavior during our entire relationship. There have been times before that he says he sorry and he knows he has to change and says he will do counseling, only to go a couple of times and give up. The difference this time is that he actually moved out and I do not want him to move back in. I do not trust his "I'm sorry" and "I know I was wrong" and his agreement to do counseling. I do not want to put myself back in the situation again. I am ready to move on. I do feel like I owe us as a married couple the chance to try and see if counseling works. I agreed to go to marraige couseling with him and I told him that I wanted him to get counseling for himself also. I also told him that I do not want him to move back in and that this is not an easy fix and not as simple as he thinks it is. Honestly, I do not think that he is commited enough to put the effort into fixing things. It wil take a lot of work and he is lazy and wants things to be done for him. He alredy expects me to look into the counseling and set things up. I have to do all of the leg work. I am willing to go to the counseling with him even if it's just to get him to see what went wrong and that it probably isn't fixable and we should both move on. Does anyone think that there is something else that can be done?
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My husband is bi polar and its back and forth all day long, the minute i get tired of his crap and he realizes it he is great, then when im overcome with emotion again and want my marriage to work the rage comes back... RUN ,,,,,, they are manipulators,,,,,,,,,,, my husband has been running my life for two yaers and im so sick of the pain..... If yours changes then i am very very happy for you....
I wrote a book, His world, my Hell... you can google it, it is all about living with a bi polar spouse........ the ride is rough, but im sure it can be managed, For me I need to stop the pain because I am being lost to myself.
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Don't take him back unless he stands true to his word. I was married to a bipolar person and we counseled over and over. He was told to do things and never would follow thru. I know one thing we were battleing was the illness. That is tough. They self medicate , and when they are manic the are invincible. My ex self medicated with alcohol because that is the only thing that slowed the mania.
I gave him a year to be on his own and keep a job. He did it but things still fell apart.
The bad thing is that once the healing starts then you realize that you still love him. Mental illness is a tough one. They really don't have a choice . But after you have tried everything if it still isn't working then you will have to move on. It takes a special person to be married to a bipolar . I was not one of them. I hope everything works out for you!
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run. he wants his cushy life back thats it. you went threw too much to get him out. keep him out, you don't trust that he is cured or will keep up with his help. if he was serious about his disease and how it affects you guys you both would of worked this out in the marriage. he would have a counselor already in place. he is in denial. and scared to get help. he needs to do this for himself. i tried so hard to compensate for my husband who has bipolar or depression and addhd. but won't take the meds or continue to see someone. he always starts taking the meds again when i say i need you to leave and i can't live with you. just be careful my unhusband also won't admit to the guilt he must have of infildelities on the road over the past years but he blamed them on his depression
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I have to agree with Mike, if he is not even willing to do the research for a marriage counselor, then maybe he isn't serious. I have been married to a bipolar and prescription drug abuser for 10 years, 2 of which he was showing symptoms. We did the marriage counseling thing and he pretended to work on things, but in the end he just wanted to blame all of our marital problems on me. I kept thinking things would get better and now I am just mad that I spent so many good years of my life trying to work our marriage out when I was the only one that was trying. Stick to your guns and don't let him move back in unless you are 98% sure that he has done what he has to do to put your marriage on the right track. Good luck!
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I am a bi-polar ex. I can honestly tell you that the things we do in Mania state are fairly compulsory, and out of our control when un medicated.
In the depressive state, we feel alone, but reject offers of companionship. This disease is debilitating and embarrassing, and the medications are not desirous nor are they always effective.
I am currently being accused of drug use because at times I appear "all hopped up: and my speech becomes very fast and my thoughts go too fast to focus, which affects my short term memory. I guess these are also symptoms of crack usage, However, it is very hard to prove a negative "Prove you did not do drugs 2 weeks ago," Go ahead, try it... It is hard.
Mostly I want to tell you, if you deep down love the BPD sufferer, don't divorce them because they are thinking they have found the gene that causes this disorder, this means it could be 100% curable soon.
And also, we do love our spouses, even tho we screw up bad in mania.
Peace.
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