A woman with depression and a man with bipolar disorder got married. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is my reality.
I didn’t go looking for this relationship. Honestly, after the end of a previous relationship that was abusive in many ways, I had sworn off of love entirely.
I especially hadn’t been planning to fall in love with someone else who had a lifelong struggle with their own mental health because I know how much of a handful I can be with mine, and I thoroughly imagined twice the mental illness would mean twice the headache.
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