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15 Jul 2023 04:56 PM
15 Jul 2023 04:56 PM
(for full back story pls see previous posts)
Husband has been out of hospital and on a community treatment order for 3.5 weeks now, medicated for 4.5 weeks.
His father passed away 2 weeks ago and we had the funeral last week.
The funeral was the first time I'd seen him in 43 days. Highly emotional day!
We had started to have 'polite' text interactions and his anger towards me seemed to have dissipated.
He has refused to come home since his discharge and had told me that he couldn't see us together in the short term. He also wanted me to break the lease on our rental house (that we live in).
I took my time and weighed up the options and responded to him saying that I did not want to break the lease as it would leave me unstable with housing etc, but that I could get him removed from the lease if that's what he wanted.
He replied that I should go ahead, remove him and that we are officially now 'broken up' and I need to accept that. He is still holding me responsible for his hospitalisation as I've been honest that it was me who called mental health triage.
He denies still that he has any mental illness.
3 emails, 2 phonecalls from him to me where he wouldn't listen to anything I had to say, and 6 texts from him all angry and still blaming me.
I can't do this anymore.
I can't absorb anymore hatred, even if it's coming from a mental illness.
Nothing at all has changed. He sounds as unwell today as he did prior to hospital.
My soul is so tired.
Who know, in time we may work through it but for now, heartbreakingly, I have to let him go.
So sad 😞
15 Jul 2023 07:41 PM
15 Jul 2023 07:41 PM
Hi @Reggiethecat am simply very sorry for the situation between yourself and your partner. I know from experience that it’s a very painful decision to make but self preservation is essential. Rest well 🙏
15 Jul 2023 09:16 PM
15 Jul 2023 09:16 PM
@Reggiethecat I'm so sorry that you're going through this. It's never easy to have to let someone go like that, and yeah even if it is from his mental illness, it doesn't mean you deserve to be treated poorly.
I hope you're able to find the time to nurture yourself, practice some self-compassion and give yourself space to heal. Do you have some mental health support of your own? Could be worth looking into, as a private space to help you process what has happened.
16 Jul 2023 09:33 AM
16 Jul 2023 09:33 AM
Thank you @Jynx and @Krishna 🙏
I don't want any of this to be happening to him or me.
I do have a psych I see weekly.
It may be just too soon for him to be seeing any improvement yet, but given that he refuses to give me any information I can't make a judgement on that.
All I do know is that the person he is right now blames me for everything and is filled with anger and hatred towards me and that is sucking the life from me. So I am taking space. ♥️🙏
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