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Does mental illness *doom* a marriage?
#2965996 05/29/03 10:40 AM
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I have been diagnosed with Bipolar II but do not believe my marriage is doomed. My H most emphatically does not believe our marriage is doomed. He loves me and really believed the "in sickness and in health, til death do us part" part of our vows.

Yet it is not uncommon that the spouse of a person with mental illness is told what I will call the Doom Mantra (run, hopeless, will never change, will always be this way, leave, give up, MB can't help, etc) when they come here for help. I've heard this mantra in RL too.

So what do you think? Does mental illness doom a marriage?
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Stable,

In my opinion, mental illness definitely falls under the "in sickness as in health" clause of the vows.

It only dooms a marriage if the non-sick partner didn't mean it when (s)he took those vows.

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I posted this topic to Emotional Needs, Divorcing, and General Questions. The EN thread is the most active. Go HERE

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