Does anyone else have difficulty with their significant other feeling unloved when you're in the middle of a depressive episode?

This is the first major depressive episode I've had since we've been married and I suppose he's enjoyed the "honeymoon period" and is unhappy with things now.

He has said that he wants me to be happy, he wants me to be cheerful and be happy to see him at the end of the day when I see him, or he gets home from being out.

But anyone with depression knows that it's extremely difficult to appear "happy and smily" all the time.

I know I need to educate him on the way depression works, and i do acknowledge that it's difficult for him living with someone who is blue all the time. It's just difficult and makes life hard a lot of the time.