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LorenzoStomp t1_j9og2an wrote

Its always a good idea to check in with your partner. After all, you are part of a team, they're not just some furniture that comes with the house (and what if your couch started doing something it didn't usually do? You'd definitely check on that, right?). But I wouldn't necessarily put "just" before "depressed". I'm sure you didn't mean it but it kinda comes off like, "Oh no, are you gonna leave me?! Oh, you're just depressed, no worries then. Just so long as my status quo's not affected." I've been in situations where my partner was refusing to get help for mental problems and the only way to push them towards getting help was for the relationship to end (they needed the change to motivate them and allow them to focus). I've also left relationships because I was depressed and not getting any support and being expected to continue my half of things with no help was dragging me down further. Sometimes both things happened at once. Either situation sucks for everyone involved but it was the right thing to happen.

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Smoky-Abyss OP t1_j9oqucp wrote

I meant it as just depression, not a bunch of separate problems that’ve been held in. I apologize if the wording was bothersome.

My stresses increase in the final weeks because they’re suddenly not helping out and they’re acting odd and not talking about what’s wrong, and then it ends and everything becomes abundantly obvious that things weren’t okay. My partners have always been really good at pretending things are okay. I think it’s because of traumatic childhoods where pretending everything is fine was a survival strategy.

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