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DP has been informed that they are showing high levels of anxiety, started attending CBT based workshops. This past week I screwed up in their opinion (and I'm starting to understand why they feel this) and told some very close family members what was happening because it's been taking its toll on me and I needed someone to talk to. They told me that I have betrayed trust and that I am now the cause of most of their anxiety, yesterday this all culminated in a hefty row where they told me that they hated me, called me a vast amount of expletives, told me they will never trust me again and we have now not spoken other than to discuss our son's wellbeing for the past 4 days.
I honestly don't know what to do, I feel so out of my depth and exhausted with knowing how to manage or cope with this. For reference this behaviour is not normal for them at all and I know in my rational self that they didn't mean the things that were said, but equally to be told that you are hated is not the easiest thing to move past and I feel now that I'm stuck in this awful limbo of desperately wanting to be close to them and support them, but I'm still so sore about what was said, and being a little bit hard headed which I know is utterly bloody ridiculous and I'm cross with myself for being like it.
I'm also worried that our son is picking up on this, he's 2.5 and keeps asking what's the matter, is getting upset at bed time as we aren't putting him to bed together etc.
I suppose this is a bit of a whinge alongside advice seeking, I just don't know what to do. I'm trying to educate myself but a lot of what I am reading is contradictory in the 'tips'. I'm just lost and don't know where to start.
TIA for any words of wisdom
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