
How Can Romantic Relationships Work With a Mentally Ill Person?
Inside Mental Health
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How to Deal With a Mental Illness in Marriage
i sat down with kendall in preparation for the show, and i asked her a lot of questions. And one of the first things that came up is i was very, very mentally ill when i got married the first time. We're still friends, because we understood how to work together to manage mental illness. But we didn't any time energy and attention to all the other parts of marriage. All of the basics of being in romantic relationship still apply. I still have to put her needs ahead of my own. She still needs to put my needs ahead of hers. We need to have similar values. None of that goes away. Just added on more work.
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