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When to Leave a Spouse With Mental Illness: Safety, Love, and Limits

Marriage asks for patience, loyalty, and endurance. Mental illness can deepen those demands in ways that few couples anticipate when they make their vows. A spouse may become depressed, paranoid, manic, emotionally volatile, withdrawn, impulsive, or frighteningly unpredictable. The healthy partner often lives in a painful bind. You want to stand by someone you love, but you also need to protect your own mind, body, finances, and children. That tension sits underneath the