I am a gay male. I am engaged to get married to my partner next year. The thing is that he does not know that I was once diagnosed with DID. I have never told him. We have been together for a little over 7 years now. There are times he notices that I am different but I just blow it off with him thinking I am moody or tired or whatever. I am 53 years old. At one point when I found out about this I had 32 alters. I worked in therapy for about 7 years and we all melted into one main one...with possibly a couple other left intact. Through this I was able to go on with life. I got BA ...now I am about to be done with a Masters degree.....and for the past few months I am noticing more and more about my DID......hearing things again.....losing some time here and there....finding things I bought and not remembering......the feeling that I am wanting to just take off and go somewhere....anywhere......

I'm thinking maybe it is the stress of getting married and finishing up grad school and then having to look for a job.....maybe too much at one time? Plus my family is NOT supportive of me being gay or getting married to a man.....

I don't know if I should tell him or not. I don't honestly know if he would understand. I thought about getting my therapist I worked with for all those years to send me a letter saying that yes, I was diagnosed with this. I don't know.

Maybe once the wedding is over and the grad school is finished things will calm down....I mean before all this I have been doing pretty well.

I know I am new here...and I do not have a profile up and running on here. But any words of advice would be greatly appreciated.....or any thoughts or opinions......

Thank-you so much.

ReRe54