Hi all,
I'll try and be brief, but basically my partner and I are really struggling for various reasons and things that have happened in our relationship. Trying to hold it together, and we love each other but it just feels so hard atm.
We've been together around 5 years and in that time we have had a DD who is 2. The birth was extremely traumatic, and I had severe PTSD (had treatment), then my partners step-dad passed away which impacted him heavily. His anxiety became very severe and he was obsessing about health issues and was I would say depressed a lot of the time. He wasn't really interested in doing much as a family and would say that he felt too tired a lot of the time.
Most recently he has had a health scare which has really escalated the obsessing and anxiety. I am trying so hard to be supportive, but because of this I am taking on a huge portion of the childcare and trying to keep things going for our DD and I am burnout. I'm also really worried that he is escalating and I'm just really unsure how to help or what to do.
He is having his first therapy session tomorrow which I am really hoping will help.