Does your partner give you sufficient emotional support?

[StepDoor]

Does your partner give you sufficient emotional support?

Yes/No will suffice

No. I think a lot of women get emotion support from other women rather than their partner.

No

Yes. Though I'm fairly self sufficient, he's pretty great when I need him to be.

Not always. He has off days and isn't always capable of all I need.

He does the best he can though which is what's most important.

Yes. Though I'm a lesbian so my DP is another woman (in case that matters for your sample).

No, not at all!

No. But he's a good person, just thinks differently to me.. I do think that generally it's a gender thing...

Depends what you're on about. In a complicated or long-lasting predicament, it's always wise to tell someone what support you want. If it's more that you're upset from an incident that's just happened, any normal human knows you need a bit of hand-holding & tea-making.

My answer from both marriages would be "No". I'm not married any more :)

My answer regarding my exH is no. One of the main reasons I left in the end.

Don't see the point of a partner if they can't or won't give emotional support when times are tough.

Yes.

Yes. I am sad so many feel they don't.

Yes

He used to thats why i loved him but now i would say no.

Yes.
(Why Yes/no answer StepDoor?!)

No - that's one of the reasons to have mumsnet! I often don't even tell him that things are bothering me any more as I won't get a helpful response. Just realised how sad that sounds but wonder whether it's largely a gender thing given I am clearly not the only one!

Yes. He is brilliant and decent and lovely.

No

Yes.

No

Yes, he's the first person I would turn to. Always great advice, comforting and one in a million type of person.

I don't always recognise it at the time, but yes. He has a great way of not sweating the small stuff on my behalf. I get massively infuriated by this when I'm in an emotional tizzy, but he is (almost) always right. Bastard. ??

Yes. He gives me a lot and is fairly laid back/tolerant sort of person.

Tact is not his middle name but that is just him being clumsy with words and getting his mouth into gear before his brain. He is a good man though, well meaning, supportive and heart in the right place.

Yes. I can tell him anything and usually get a sympathetic response, if not an empathetic one.

Having said that - a few days after our daughter's birth, which ended in an EMCS when I had been so hoping for a natural vaginal birth, I found him crying over a copy of the birth plan. He said how sad he felt that what I'd wanted had been taken away bullet point by bullet point. So quite empathetic!