yeah, cope is the better word. For one thing, he wants to go to bed way earlier than me. And I'm not even tired at 9:30 or whatever. Especially when I didn't know he was bipolar and really needed sleep, I felt I had to try to be on his schedule because that is just how he was wired (then I learned about the sleeping pills and was just confused, he first told me he was on sleeping pills just to get off pot).

He wasn't much of a talker. He'd be fine to watch tv and just have me there. It would have been fine to me if we'd known each other for years but he did this early into our dates, like 2nd date. I think drinking a bit made me feel more romance, right or wrong. Also helped me look past things which he was trying to convince me of.