The walking on eggshells has been off and on since she has been diagnosed, although I can say that it wasn't about the bipolar all the time. In the past 8-10 years she has been more open about how she is feeling and I ask sometimes when I sense something is off. Since she has been seeing some good doctors she has been pretty well balanced but that took a while to get to that stage. Lately she seems manic, and has not been seeing her counselor at all.
My W has some secrets that she has never opened up to me about, and I think this has been a huge factor in her MLC. I feel bad that my W has never found a safe place with me to share those deep issues I believe she suffers from. I could have helped. As I mentioned before, she works off of 100% emotion, and while other couples disagree and take it for what it is - a disagreement, my W always took things personally when I disagreed with her.
So what we have is an MLCer who is bipolar on medication as well. A strange concoction indeed, since she is not exhibiting any depressive signs, or maybe she is masking them, I don't know. She was always very good at hiding her true self until it was too late, especially in her depressive episodes.
M - 55 W- 49 S-19, D-16 Married - 24 Bipolar Dx - May 1996 #1 BD - Jun 2011 #2 BD - Feb 2012 #3 BD - Oct 2012 Reconnecting - Jan 2013
"I'm going off the rails on a crazy train!" - O. Osbourne
