Truthfully, although it is hard, it is better that it happened this way. Otherwise he might have decided you are exactly like his wife because you have bipolar, too. And then suddenly he's putting stuff on your shoulders that he's carried over from being with her.... People get ideas stuck in their heads about bipolar and what it is and isn't. They don't realize how although we all have similarities we are also very different in our illness. Better to be at the end now than years from now when it would be even more painful.

Hang in there!