I appreciate your "prying" ! (like I mentioned, I really have no one to talk to about this so it's relieving). I think it's a combination of not understanding what bipolar is and not wanting to understand. He's said it himself: he's a very practical person who goes into "fix" mode whenever there's a problem. But I've pointed out to him many times that this attitude is often not very helpful in the midst of of emotional turmoil, because there is no "answer." I bought a book awhile ago about bipolar/relationships and asked why he didn't bother reading it - he said he didn't like reading/thinking about me as a diseased person, as someone with an illness. I just don't relate to this attitude at all. I always want to know more and more and more about anything that effects me or those I care about.

I'm worried I've "married my mother" who has similar emotional blockages...