"Significant other" in this case meaning someone you've been with for long enough that you're sure this is the person for you. You're either married or whatever you've agreed upon as the "end goal" for the relationship, whether that's "just stay together" without marrying or whatever else it might be. You're past all the intro stuff and you're looking to or already have built a life with this person.

If you're comfortable with it, I'm also curious what your diagnosis might be and if you could describe how the relationship progressed for you beyond the initial meeting throughout your mental health issues and when you both decided to stay together.

Also if you're comfortable I'm curious the age you met your significant other and how long you've been together.

Whatever info you can share may be helpful. If you'd rather PM me instead of post publicly that's ok.

I'm writing this in hopes of finding people here who might have had it worse than or similarly as bad as me but still managed to find that special person for them, hence the reason for a stricter requirement on how committed the relationship is. I'm uninterested in casual relationships myself so don't want to base anything off of them. I see a few of you with your diagnosis either in your signature or posted somewhere else and some of those things must be so hard to manage, yet you still managed to find someone. If you can, maybe I can too? I've basically isolated myself IRL because I generally dislike people and how they treat me, so I've been socializing online only. Despite my hobbies being quite similar to guys and getting along really well with them, the good guys are never interested or already claimed - only the wrong ones ever like me. I'm not sad about anyone that I've lost because they've all been wrong for me. I'm just sad that I haven't found anyone to keep and I feel like I never will because what I need doesn't seem to be out there, and when it rarely is it's either already claimed or doesn't feel the same about me.

Side note: I'm not looking for any advice on the matter, just your personal experiences. I'm already doing what I can, I just need hope is all. =\