How She Coped With Her Spouse’s Mental Illness
Living with a spouse with mental illness can turn your perfect life on its head
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People suffer in relationships. They heal too. But suffering and healing does not necessarily happen in that order. Physical abuse and marital rape are extreme forms of suffering that many people endure in their relationships. But suffering also happens when one partner is extremely selfish, narcissistic or is unaware of a partner’s emotional needs. Years of neglect and constant bickering can also result in a kind of suffering and it takes time to heal.
In this section Bonobology shares stories of how people suffered yet, they found the strength to struggle through this phase and then move on. They survived to tell the tale and healed to start a new life.
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Living with a spouse with mental illness can turn your perfect life on its head
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I was 5 years into my relationship with my girlfriend when she decided that it was time I met her parents. Both of them knew about me, but we had neither met nor spoken. So, I flew down to Mumbai, wore the white checked shirt she had bought me for this very meeting, wore formal
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His fiancee broke up with him, but he found someone better who helped him move on from the past.
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How my father bought a loving husband for me Babuji, my father, is quite a successful businessman in my hometown of Bikaner. He owns three silver shops, one hosiery factory and a chain of sweet shops. That’s what bought me a degree in cooking from France and a very good-looking husband. Babuji opened a branch
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Beware of these abusive behaviours if they are not one-off occurrences but recurring patterns. Know the difference between healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships.
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(As told to Saurabh Paul) I fell in love with the image he showed me It all began with a crush in college: those furtive glances which suggest that two young people are fancying each other. Soon, familiarity grew, and not many days after, friends became a couple. I had a middle-class upbringing and he
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If your bestie is going through a break-up we are here to help you deal with the situation
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So, the person you’re with had a tumultuous breakup in their past. You were totally cool with it when you first found out. After all, who doesn’t have a past! But now you can’t seem to shake off the feeling that something isn’t quite right. You feel he is not over his ex. On the
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why women stay in abusive relationships has to do with living in denial and not being able to acknowledge the reality of their situation.
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When I was abused as a young student These days the ‘Me too’ campaign has thankfully caught on fiercely amongst the educated class the world over, but my story dates back almost 30 years or more when I was still an almost wet behind the ears, eager to please teenager, bursting with the importance of
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