My husband met me at my absolute lowest point. I was in IP after a suicide attempt and receiving ECT. My friend was visiting and decided to bring him for some reason (weird to bring a stranger to visit your friend in the mental hospital). So really, we had nowhere to go but up. I was in remission for six years so he didn’t really have to deal with mental health issues. When I started swinging again our marriage took a hit. We were desperately in love but it was so hard to deal with everything. He ended up turning to drugs and passed away from an overdose two years ago.

Now I’ve just started dating again. I honestly don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know when I should reveal the MI to the person I’m seeing. Right now I’ve heen on three dates with someone and I have no idea how to tell him. Should I wait six months, should I get it out of the way now, I have no idea. Dating is really tough even if you don’t have MI.

You are young though. I’m not sure there are a lot of 20 year old guys that have the maturity to handle something as big as MI. But eventually you will find someone, just like I did.