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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve been in your situation, except I’m the DH. It nearly got to the point of divorce. I had hired a lawyer, process was underway. We then had a death in the family that delayed things.

Somehow, right around that time things began to even out. One major development for us was that I largely took over DW’s healthcare. I forced her to get to psych and therapy appointments that she used to routinely ignore. I administer her meds. I was also able to agree that she could stop working and just focus on being her best self at home and with the kids. The last thing was just a conscious decision not to share in or be overcome by her misery, lashing out, extreme anxiety, etc. I just very firmly do not participate and do not engage.

It sort of worked. The situation now is far from perfect, but it’s also very far from how bad it used to be.

For me, the prospect of divorce was crushing... between missing the kids 50% of the time and being concerned for them when I wasn’t around, I never felt right about it. But we were so hopeless. And then, suddenly, there was a little hope. So while I get that some of the PPs needed to call it quits, at least in our case (so far) things can improve. GL. [/quote]

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