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Originally Posted by kaliope
i can tell you are feeling a bit guilty for not feeling strong enough to deal with this relationship. i admire you for educating yourself on the symptoms so you could better cope with her and her son. but it is challenging to have a relationship with someone with mental health issues and it comes to a point where you have to make a decision and you made the one that was best for you. i do not feel you are being selfish. you deserve happiness in your life and relationships are hard enough. thank you for caring as long as you did.  |
Kaliope,
Thanks for the nice response. I tried really hard but again, the mood swings were very hard for me to deal with. A couple of times she had outbursts that just came out of nowhere. The first time she had an outburst, it caught me off guard completely. She then calmed down and started crying. I felt very sorry for her and was completely confused (this was before my friends told me about her Asperger's traits).
She seemed to be in denial about her son also. He has every trait of Asperger's but she would always say things like, "I wonder why he does that?". I once mentioned to her that maybe seeing a mental health specialist would answer some questions about her son and she wanted no part of it. It was almost like she knew, but was in denial.
I don't know. I really fell in love with her but just could not deal with it anymore. She deserves to be loved....