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BipolaRNurse · Feb 14, 2013, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by gammachris

So I like this man enough that I'm having second thoughts about saddling him with me. He knows that I'm bipolar, and I've talked to him some about what that means in the context of who I am. However, that's a whole different thing than actually living with it firsthand. I'm doing incredibly well since my divorce. I haven't been hospitalized since, and I'm down to only Lithium right now. I've lost 50 pounds, and my life has improved beyond belief. However, bipolar is a forever thing. And I'm afraid of making things hard on him. And I'm afraid of falling on love, and then having him walk away because he can't take it anymore (not that I'd blame him.) I feel like damaged goods.

I don't know if this will be helpful, but here goes.

GO FOR IT.

It can work. There are some incredibly decent men out there, and if one of them loves you, he'll stick with you through thick and thin, sunshine and sorrow........manic and depressed. I know. I'm living proof.

Many years ago, I found a guy just like this fellow you're talking about. Neither of us knew I was bipolar then, but he did know that I was both mercurial and wildly creative; that I could be a passionate hot mamma and a she-demon on wheels; that I would turn out to be both a comfort and a torment.

And he's still with me, loving me after 33 years.

Don't let this chance for happiness get away. He wants you, bipolar and all, and you'd kick yourself for the rest of your life if you didn't allow his love in.

I know, pretty sappy, but it IS Valentine's Day and I adore a good love story.

I hope yours has a happy ending!