My wife has been diagnosed as schizoaffective instead of bipolar. Her main problem is with depression, but she cycles for short times into hypomania. Her sleep patterns are really skewed, up all night one night, then sleeping 18 or 20 out of 24 hours. She has alot of irritability at times. Fortunately, we been married about 15 yrs. and were both diagnosed long ago. She was diagnosed in '93, and I was diagnosed Bipolar I, with mixed episodes in 1982. We've had a good bit of experience sort of flowing together through various moods and hurdles. I think we were really blessed to find each other. On her side, I am not the easiest person to live with, with my own load of irritability, paranoia, anxiety, panic attacks, hypomania, and basically being a social misfit. We have gotten fairly good at the ebbs and flows in our life, all things considered.