I do have a mental illness & my husband has stuck w/me through my darkest times (suicide attempts) & my confusing times when I didn't know why I felt so badly so blamed him. He really is a saint, but at a certain point I can understand the spouse leaving. If he/she is being beaten down every day from the person w/the metal illness & tried everything in his capacity to help & still the marriage is pure hell (like screaming fights & mother doing rash things--affairs, trying to get run over by cars, etc. as my mother did), I just figure if you've done your best & it isn't working you should not be destined to live in this hell. You didn't sign up for a lifelong life of turmoil & chaos.

Each person deserves SOME JOY in his life.

I don't blame those who have been put through the wringer due to the spouse's mental illness & there is not bright future in sight. Who deserves a life like that?