Relationships?

How are your relationships?I cut all of the poisoning people in my life and only surrounded myself with positive people. Expect for mom cuz well, she's my mom.

Good for you. I’ve cut all the negative people from my life except my sister because that would create more chaos and really hurt my mom. Plus we all live in the same town so we get together for holidays and birthdays. She is really toxic to me so I limit exposure but can’t quite completely cut her off.

My relationships all suck. I have no friends. Can’t get a man. Separated from my ex husband. My mom and I aren’t what we used to be.

My daughter, my dog and my therapist are the people I can count on. I feel so lonely and alone and hate myself for it.

I lost all of my friends because of bipolar disorder. I haven't yet gotten to the point where I am out in the world enough again to make new ones. My relationship with my husband is very strong. I do feel bad that my illness has made our life more difficult (stress, eventual decrease in earnings, my lack of motivation to contribute as much as I'd like in other ways). My mother died when my illness was just starting to get very bad. That exacerbated the whole situation, and left me without a key supporter. My dad has gone his own way for the most part. My siblings have, too, and my sister and her family have struggled with their own psychiatric issues.

Not feeling the love lately. I have been working hard on CBT to deal with normal ups and downs. I have been visiting pdoc often and gotten a med regime that has me in a better place than I have been in years. I quit drinking and abusing prescription meds, 4 months tomorrow. I am getting serious about my health; lost about 30# and have been riding my bike and taking long walks. I have been doing really well at work and helped get us on track for a possible deal that will extend my job for several years. No one cares about any of this except my wife asks about the prospects for my job out of concern for the change in income we would be faced with if my job isn't funded. Everyone at my house knows I quit drinking/using but no one could tell you when. The only place I will be congratulated tomorrow is over in the addiction forum. They know I am losing weight but never ask about how I am doing it or how much I have lost. I think that is largely because my wife needs to lose quite a bit also but isn't really trying to. She's an overweight smoking heart patient.
I don't have any close friends that I speak to or see often. I see my family maybe twice a year and not really all that close with any family member.

A lot of this is my fault. I am a loner that somehow found a wife and I think she has buyer's remorse now for all that I put her through with my mood swings and closet drinking. Kids care about me but have their own lives and issues (17 and older).

Between 2008 and 2011 I was untreated and clueless. As the months went by, my behavior toward people (especially women) became more and more problematic. In 2011, I had a full blown, grade A #1 manic episode where I said and did a lot of hurtful things. My friends and family were perplexed and deeply concerned. My wife was devastated. Very few people really understood that I was sick...least of all me. When I began my treatment though, I found that my wife, friends, and family embraced me. I'm so grateful for that. Over that period of illness, I collected a lot of people who I really had no business being connected with. When I got well, I dumped them all. People were pissed, but it was what was best for me. I hate that I hurt some feelings, but I have no regrets there.

My relationships and social life could be better.
All my romantic relationships tend to end when I crash down, because I'm not generally interested in other people, including my partner. And I don't want to bother them with my sadness and depression. Depression makes me cold and distant, not feeling attracted to my partner. It always ruins my relationships.

Thank god my friends won't leave me when I hit the rock bottom, they know I will rise from there eventually.

I recently moved in to new town, but I couldn't be socially active and make friends due to my depression. So now I'm mostly alone and spend most of the time at my own apartment (and sometimes at school when I have the energy to go there). So I think this all affects my relationships and my social life is kind of poor.