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marriage is falling apart

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totallylost · 16/05/2011 13:22

No idea where to start with this. About three months ago DH had a kind of breakdown, he started having panic attacks, shaking, not able to leave the house. He went to doctor who gave him anti depressants which she said were also an anti anxiety thing. He was also signed up to have counselling. He was signed off work for 6 weeks. I supported him as best I could, gave him space if he needed it, sat with him for hours when he needed it. After six weeks he told me he couldn't live with me anymore, that arguing with me had made him ill and that he didn't love me or even like me anymore.

He rented a house but before he moved out he asked if we could still see each other, he wanted to date me again, to force him self to spend time with me and do stuff with me and see if he could fall in love with me.

Previously we had argued about him never wanting to do anything with me and when he told me he was leaving he said he resented having to do stuff with me.

I let him go and to start with we saw each other a couple of times a week and it was great, but then its like he wanted to sabotage it, to mess it up before it all went wrong.

We know swing from him not wanting to try, not loving me etc to he wants to come back and try again and then he runs away again.

He has finally started his counselling and seems more optimistic and we are currently trying again with him saying he really means he is going to try this time. But I am struggling to cope. Every day I am waiting to see which man comes home.

Don't know what I expect from this but just had to get it all out.

OP posts:
chris123456 · 19/06/2011 18:58

It doesn't matter what is causing them - he is still having panic attacks and therefore should still be on meds. Has he told his GP that he is no longer having attacks?

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