Relationships

At a wedding reception.

Me and my boyfriend at a wedding. We live together, and we are happy. I have struggled with maintaining relationships and my sanity over the years. Most of my past boyfriends, and my ex-husband, thought I would be better off without medication. However they could never deal with the reality of mania or depression very well. 

My boyfriend understands that I need medication and he supports me taking it. He has had glimpses of me without it, including one stint in a mental hospital, and he is happy that there is medicine to help me stay sane. 

Last fall, before I ended up being hospitalized for mania, he saw me yell loudly at a rude woman in a bar while wielding a chair, steal some paper from a convenience store, run through traffic to get away from a security guard who was chasing me, and ask the cops to take me to the hospital while lying down on the sidewalk--and this was all in one night! He must love me to stay with me after all of that!