Dating someone who lives with mental health conditions can be stressful for people who don’t quite understand what life with their condition is like.
As much as you love them, and as much as you want to be there for them, sometimes it’s genuinely hard when you don’t quite know what to do because you don’t know how depression can cause you to stay in bed all day, or how mania can convince you to roadtrip at 2 a.m.
by yourself. You love your partner and you want to be there for them, which is amazing, but the how is the tricky part. While you may not know how to physically and emotionally support your partner from firsthand experience, one thing you can do to try is to tend to their love languages.
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