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My husband’s depression

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My husband was recently diagnosed with depression. He’ll be happy one minute and then down in the dumps the next. I’ve brought it up before and he told me that his mood changes frequently. I’ll ask him if there’s anything I can do to help him. We have a lot going on with our relationship. We’ve been going through it lately with emotional infidelity on his part and still wanting to be friends with the girl because he said he has stopped talking to her like that, we’re currently trying to sell our house and it’s not selling, he’s getting out of the military in October this year, and we don’t have a lot of money and living paycheck to paycheck because all of our money is going to this house that we’re trying to sell. So there’s a lot of things going on. I will admit I do add to his stress but it’s because I can’t just sit and be okay with him being friends with this girl. Especially when he’s going to her for emotional support instead of his own wife. We’re gonna start marriage counseling soon. I’m just waiting for the referral to be approved. I’m doing personal therapy and he starts his personal therapy on the 16th of this month. I would like to not be his origin of stress but it’s hard to have him be friends with this girl. He also works with her so it’s not like he won’t see her even if he were to cut her off. It’s a very weird situation and at the end of the day I love him and I wanna help him during this time of anxiety and depression. What should I do when he’s down in the dumps? Leave him alone? Don’t leave him alone? I don’t wanna suffocate him but I also don’t want him to think I don’t care.

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So for me, cheating is a deal breaker and especially if he still talks to the other woman?? Omg no. Get out.

I wanna try to work on it mainly because we haven’t exhausted all our options. We haven’t done marriage counseling and I don’t wanna throw in the towel until we’ve done everything we can. Once we do the counseling and I see that he’s not reciprocating anything then I know that it’s over.

Ok you do you

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