Help! Seperated From My Bi-polar Wife & Don't Want to Be Posted: 08-01-05 01:08am
I married the love of my wife a year ago.
She is 36, divorced twice w/ 3 children
10, 14, 15. We went together about a
year before we married. I knew she was
bi-polar. I also knew in her past she
had substance abuse problem which drove
her to stealing checks from her uncle
resulting in a felony charge for which she
got paraole. This occured before she
was diagnosed bi-polar. She was pretty
good when we were going together- shed did
have mood swings and we did have arguments
to the point we broke up once. But my
love for her remained. We married. I
did everything I could to see that she was
properly diagnosed by taking her to a
large university medical center in
kentucky which has a bi-polar clinic.
It is 3 hours one way from our home. I
took her every month. She was placed on
lithium (900mgs day) and enderol (25 mgs)
for the tremors the lithium caused. She
was also on serequill (100mgs) a day for
sleep. All during our relationship she
craved alcohol. I told her physcitris
about this and he told us both that she
was still an addict and that she was using
the alcohiol as a substitute for the
drugs. Her drig of choice was crack
cocaaine and if she couldn't get that she
said it was meth. She knew I didn't
approve of drugs so she turned to alcohol.
Whenever she would drink a fight was
guaranteed. Not just sharp words but
she would get physical. One night in
dec. 04 she forced me to take her to a
nighclub in a nearby town. I didn't
want to but to prevent a fight I did.
She promised she would stop at 4 drinks.
She didn't she just kept on. And she
was acting very flirtatious and
provacative on the dance floor. I tried
to get her to go home and she called on
the club security to have me removed and
told them she didn't kniow who I was and
that I was bothering her! I told them
she was my wife and they didn't care- out
I went. I waited in the parking lot
until they closed and she came out. She
did come out with a small group of men and
a few women and they proceeded across the
parking lot to a ramada inn next door.
I chased her down and again she denied
knowing me and told some of those people
to get me away from her. It was almost
a fight. Long story short I saw which
room they went all went to and proceeded
to knock on the door. After a few
minutes she came out pulling her shirt
down. I asked her what she was doing
and she had nothing but hatred to say.
I asked her if anything happened and she
quickly responded that she was s---ing
d---k and e-----g p-----y. I was
astonished and in disbelief. I couldn't
belief my ears. I was sick and mad.
She attacked me physically when I got her
to the car. I called 911 on my cell and
when they arrived we both were arrested
for domestic assaul;t and all iwas doing
was trying to hold her arms down from
hitting me further. She broke my
glasses and even kick the passenger car
door so hard it damaged the hinge.
After getting out of jail the next day I
asked her again if anything really
happened in that room and she said it
didn't but I still have my doubts. In
her calm and normal state of mind which
isn't often she has shared her past with
me and her past promescuity. This
affected my ability to have full faith and
trust in her. She had told me how she
did husband #1 and #2. Hell, why
shouldn't #3 (me) be woried about her
being unfaithful? I certainly had
reason to worry didn't i?
Well a very similiar night like this
happened in may 05. I came in from
working in the yard one saturday afternoon
and found my wife getting dolled up. I
asked where are we going? She said I
don't know about you but i'm going out
drinking and dancing, you can go with me
or you can stay here. The place she
wanted to go was across the state line and
I reminded her she was on parole and #1
was not supposed to be at a place that
served alcohol, #2 she can't have alcohol
for her probabtiobn or for her bi-polar
meds, and #3 she would only get in
trouble. A big argument insued and I
gave in a went with her. It always
seems she has to control everything and as
long as everything goes her way she is ok.
I even questioned her one time about that
and she agreed "everything is about me".
Anyway back to the story (nightmare) she
drank and drank and I could not get her to
stop. She got on the dance floor and
acted a fool. Acted very provacative
again. The club security escorted her
out.
When I went to the front door to get her
she assaulted me by spitting in my face
and hitting me. The club manager called
the police. She accused me of having her
taken out. I didn't but was about to I
must say.
She was arrested for assault and spent two
nights in jail and goes to trial in dec.
05. When I picked her up to bring her
home I told her she must get treatment or
we were over. She agreed to go to a
dual treatnment facility for her substance
abuse and her bi-polar. Her bi-polar
doctor at the university made the
arrangements. She reluctantly went.
She stayed 20 days of the planned 30.
They also changed her meds from lithium to
topomax and eliminated the endarol.
They kept her on serquel and added more
serequell (25 mgs) to take during the day
for anxiety or alcohol cravings. I
always made sure she took her meds and she
told me she did. I have caught her
lying about her meds in the past so I
tried to keep a close check. She wrote
me loving letters how much she was sorry
for being mean to me and sorry that she
had taken me and "us" for granted and that
she was going to change and she wanted us
to work, etc., etc. The first two
weeks she was home she was a perfect
angle. The third week she started
craving alcohol. I wouldn't allow it.
On the friday of that 3rd week while in
the bath tud she tells me she doesn't want
me doing with her to her thearpist
appointment that afternoon which is in the
same down as the club she casued us to get
arrested in back in december. I walked
in the bathroom and saw her purse there
and reached in and got her key chain out
and walked to the kitchen removing the car
key from her ring. She didn't see me
remove the key but she knew I had her key
ring. She jumps from the tub and runs
to the kitchen and starts hittting me and
yelling and grabs the key chain and runs
out of the house wet and totally nude,
gets in the car and locks the doors and
fumbles with the key ring and discovers
she doesn't have the car key so she blows
the horn for a few minutes. We live in
a rural area so that didn't serve any
purpose. Then she bolts from the car
runs into the house and calls 911 telling
them I took her car keys and lord knows
what else she was rambling on so much and
all I said to her was "don't do this" and
when the police showed up they noticed I
had a cut and was bleeding and asked me if
I wanted her arrested I said no just get
her out of here and they did. I called
my attorney who knew of the past problems
and told me to go to the courthouse and
get a protective order against her. My
attorney didn't like the idea of her
getting in the car nude with the
intentions of driving somewhere. Where
we wonder.. To the police station to
make some false accusatuions that they
probably would have believed from a nude
women driving up at 10 am on a friday
morning!! Scarry thought. Not only
did I get the protective order but I had
divorce papers served her the same day.
This was the breaking point for me.
I have only cited a few of our
difficulties in this bi-polar
realtionship. These are three of the
standouts. I didn't and don't really
want a divorce. I do love her more than
anaything but I can't take this abuse,
verbal or physical any longer. I
thought perhpas she would get the message.
She is on meds. She just got out of
the physciatric hosp. In june. This
incident with car happened jul 8, 05.
I haven't seen or spoke to her since.
She is telling friends about me taking
the keys but not the attack or her attempt
to drive off in the car nude or that I was
affraid she was going drinking in that
other town when she left her therapists
office. She is also saying now to
friends that's its over between us and she
doesn't want to try to fix it. (my
guess is she doesn't want to change).
How can we go from all the loving letters
and lovey dovey phone calls throughout
june to this big day on july 8???? And
now she wants it over? No car, no job,
she gets disabiulity for her bi-polar (not
much about $400 a month), 2 kids (she gets
child support) with her from hubby #1, the
third son hubby #2 has custody of (wonder
why???).
What is she thinking? She is telling
friends she won't sign the divorce unless
I give her the car I owned before we
married.
She came into this marriage a year ago
with nothing but some personal items and
that is all she is leaving with. She
has gone through my money like I had a
printing press in the garage! She
hasn't answer the divorce papers and is
now in default forcing it to a trial.
How can she say she wants out? I have
done everything for her and the kids and
tried to protect and care for her.
In march 05 she had major brain surgery
for a benin tumor. I was with her
throughout this ordeal and nursed her to
recovery for about a month at home.
Her worst weapon is her tounge and she
uses it with those ahrsh painful words and
an hour latter tells me she is sorry and
loves me.
Even with meds she is a mess.
I guess she is pissed for me getting the
upper hand on that friday to get her
attention. Is it worth trying to get
her back or just move on?
I really didn't want to lose her. I
tried everyhting to make our marriage
work.
Any suggestions or ideas appreciated.
Last edited by eagle2005usa on 08-26-05 03:57am; edited 1 time in total
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SweetJane
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Ontario
You're Better Off Without Her Posted: 08-06-05 17:51pm
Dear eagle2005usa,
what a prolific writer you are! That was
one loooooooooong post!
I think you're better off without this
woman. She would just keep making your
life chaos and you deserve better. She's
got a lot of work to do with professionals
before she's ready to be anyone's partner.
Take it one day at a time. Time heal's
all wounds. In time it won't hurt so
much. You know you did your best. It
was an impossible situation.
Did this help?
Jane.
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Kate917881
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 113
Posted: 08-06-05 18:44pm
Hey eagle2005usa.. After reading your
post.. I had one thought in mine.. How
could you put up with this for so long. I
understand you love her and it's obvious
you want whats best for her.. And that is
to get help..She needs to be able to love
herself and be able to get her condition
under control before she can be in a
commited relationship ..Let alone a
marriage. And maybe now your feeling that
you didn't do enough to help her.. But
you did.. You put up with her battles and
her problems.. And still stuck around to
try and help.. But.. There comes a
point in time when no matter what you do
to help her..It's not going to work
unless she is willing to help herself.
Ok.. Put it this once.. Say you stick
around and she doesn't get the help she
needs.. And she has another issue like
the one on july 8th..And you don't get the
key next time..And she shows up at the
police dept. And they belive her
story.You could end up in jail because of
a lie she tells and then she never gets
the help she needs. I say stand back and
let her get the help she needs..And then
when she's ready.. And such.. Maybe you
can make it work.. I hope that helps.
Good luck and keep me posted
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shanti1
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 87
What I Would Do If I Were Standing In Your Shoes, Posted: 08-11-05 10:01am
Wow, I only skimmed what you wrote after
the first part,
long post,
i am not you, this is just my opinion, but
I would live my life without her
i left my ex, and there are moments when I
think of the positive, and I get
sad,lonely, I miss the positive aspects of
him
but that is all I do, as if he is dead,
and I am going through some of kebler ross
stuff, and so I am mourning a loss
i do not want him to be dead for real
but our relationship, in a sense is a
death, and I am sad, angry
resentful, back to gratitude, and
i do not no how long I will get over my
ex, but I know at times it was extremely
unhealthy and I can never be with him
again.
Just send her love and peace, and be kind
to yourself
and live the life you truly want
much peace
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eagle2005usa
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Kentucky
Update: Bi-polar Wife Posted: 08-13-05 14:08pm
Thanks all for your comments. It really
helps. My friends and family do not
understand this bi-polar stuff and most
think my wife just uses that as an excuse.
I just wonder. She is smart and
manipulative.
Anyway, since my original post 31 july 05,
my wife has left her mother's home after
being there 3 weeks and has rented a house
with of all people her ex husband #2 with
who she has the 10 year old and they were
married a rough 5 years according to what
she told me. She also told me they would
never be back together again if something
ever happened to us.... I suppose this is
another bi-polar lie?
She still has not answered the divorce and
is in default now. She tried to have me
put in jail for violating the protective
order by sending her a receipt for
something she wanted her name off of the
account. So the judge told me I could
press charges against her for the july 8
05 assault and did. A warrant was issued
and she was arrested but released that
night and will be arraigned this week.
It's all so confusing and heart breaking.
Why is it bi-polars can lie so much about
love? She constantly wrote notes and
letters claiming her love for me and even
as late of june wrote that I was her
hereo. No one has ever cared for her
well being as I did. Some of her own
famuily members have told me that. How
can she be like this?
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SweetJane
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Ontario
Posted: 08-13-05 14:46pm
It's just the illness.
It doesn't lend itself well to
relationships. That's why I think all
bipolar's should be single. I know i've
had a lot easier time managing my illness
since i've become single.
During my relationship I had some
escapades like you're describing and I am
ashamed of them. One particularily bad
one my husband and I used to refer to in a
private joke as "the time of my great
sickness".
I *thought* we got past it, but during the
divorce he said how i'd hurt him that
time. I guess he didn't get over it like
I thought.
No, i've heard of bipolar women changing
the locks on their men for no reason,
taking out trumped-up restraining orders,
all manner of mischeif.
No, bipolars are better off single. It's
just the illness.
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shanti1
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Dec 2004 Posts: 87
Sweetjane, Interesting Post, Posted: 08-13-05 22:07pm
What you wrote, about bipolars should be
single
my ex boyfriend, dignosed with bipolar, I
feel he should be single.
I was in love with him, I never cheated on
him in any shape,form
he somehow thinks I have, it drove me
insane, it was embarrassing
i spent a lot of time with him, and I
wanted to be near him, in his comany
then I learned he has two personalities
living in his head, for he could treat me
like a princess, steak nice dinners,
movies, get aways, hotel stays with hot
tubs, and then.. Snap
he wants me out of his life, he is crying
or he is yelling , his face turns into a
monster, lobster red, veins poppingout of
his forehead, eyes bulging out, voice is
getting louder, his head gets closer to my
face
the face he claims is so beautiful...
So I grab my things and head out the door
and it is just crazy
nothing has to happen before this, as
hours before we are watching tv laughing,
then he wakes me up and wants me to leave
in the middle of the night
and he feels what was in his house is his,
including my purse, wallet, clothes,
we always kept our monies seperate, and
thank god, I never moved in with him. I
bought food alot, toiltries, cleaning
supplies for the house,
treated him to the movies, our date
stuff.
So anyways, I had to really hold onto my
wallet, replaceing the licence, cards, etc
is such a a hassle, so he lets me keep my
stuff
as he spits in my face.
I had to finally get off the
rollarcoaster,
i do not even know if he knows the full
depth of this other "personality"
the liar, the real mean person, I do not
even understand his paranoid, false
thinking, it was so out
there.................
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eagle2005usa
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Kentucky
Separated From Bp Wife & Don't Want to Be Udate Posted: 08-26-05 03:53am
Update to my original post this the 24th
of aug 05: looks like the divorce I
didn't really want is still proceeeding.
My wife has never sent word through my
attorney (she doesn't have one) or anyone
else for that matter to me that she does
not want this. She is being difficult
and my lawyer is unable to reach any
agreement with her and she never
officially responded to the divorce filing
as required in the first 20 days. We are
now near day 50. Our state law says a
couple must separated 60 days before the
divorce motion can be made to make it
final. I am afraid my wife who has
admitted one of her biggest faults is that
she can be easily influenced. I think
this occurring with this
separation/divorce from her adoptive
mother (who my wife claims to hate) and
her cousin. They are stuck to her like
glue and from what my wife has said to my
lawyer- it doesn't sound like anything she
would have come up with. I love my
wife more than anything ever! I don't
want to lose her. I know her being bp is
a difficult problem. I really wonder if
all she has done against me is her bp or
is she just mean? Has her love for me
all been a giant lie? I realize I must
regain control of my life, my health and
my emotions. I realize that I was losing
this prior to our being separated.
But at the same time she is my life and is
the most important thing in my life. I
have tried to tell myself to just let go
but can't. I want to talk with her
directly but can't due to the protective
order my attorney advised me to get back
on july 8, 05 when she attacked me again
and cut my arm, the same day the divorce
was filed and served on her. I am
really lost, depressed and have so many
mixed emotions running through me over her
and this dreadful situation. I am glad
this forum is here to vent my feelings to
someone is has some understanding of the
adversity of bi-polar- none of my friends
or family seem to understand bp- they all
think she is just a mean person and that I
am more or less crazy for wanting her in
my life. I do not believe I am. I love
this woman more than anything ever and
that's the god's honest truth. I knew
she was bp when I married her but never
before saw what I have seen and
experienced until after we were married
almost a year ago. I have been praying
for a miracle but so far nothing. A few
weeks ago she moved into a house with her
ex husband and their 10 year old son. At
a court hearing this week I mentioned that
my wife wasn't even divorce from me and
was committing adultery by moving in with
her ex husband and her mother and her both
responded that she was only sharing the
house and expenses. Ya and I am santa
claus too! I find this hard to
understand especially knowing what all she
did to him when they were married and all
her many acts of infidelity that she told
me about while she was married to him.
If I am crazy that guy must be insane!
Knowign what she did to him hurt my
ability to trust her. And on that
subject I have reason now to believe that
she may have committed several acts of
infidelity while married to me and one
such case was apparently with her 1st
ex-husband! This came to me from a very
reliable source who is a friend of her 1st
ex. He calims to have witnessed it.
What a freaking mess this is. Any
ideas, comments or suggestions?
Thanks
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virgie555
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 8 Location: germany
Bipolar Posted: 08-26-05 04:15am
Dear eagle,
i really feel for you, my heart goes out
to you..I didnt ge thow old you are but
it doesnt really matter..
I understand that you really love this
woman but I have to ask you one
question?
Do you love yourself? If so run dont
walk, once you have those divorce papers
signed, sealed and delivered!
It seems to me that you stuck by this
woman and gave her more than enough
chances to change..I know it sounds so
damn corney to say but nothing is more
true than, life is too short!
You sound like a wonderful man and I
promise you there is a wonderful woman out
there for you..Believe me after what you
have said, she is not it! This woman cant
be a partner to anyone..
Do yourself a favor, get out, take some
time for yourself to heal.. It wont be
easy but it will probably be the best
thing you could ever do for yourself..
This woman is toxic..
All the best to you..
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eagle2005usa
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Kentucky
Posted: 08-28-05 23:39pm
Thanks for the input. I haven't got my
mind made yet. This is the most
difficult thing ever in my life.
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eagle2005usa
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Kentucky
Update 8/30/05 Married to Bi-polar Need Help Posted: 08-30-05 14:43pm
My attorney has just informed me he has a
court date and time for a hearing on this
divorce matter which my wife so far has
failed to officially respond to. Not
even sure she will show up for the
eharing. So far she has made no attempt
to reconcile with me. Why can't she
understand what she was doing to me was
wrong and un called for bi-polar or not?
I guess her stubborness and hard-head will
not allow her to give in. In the past I
was the one who always gave in and suppose
she has been expecting me to give in again
but I just can't do it any longer. God
help me, I love her so and don't want to
lose her but I know I can't continue
living the life of drama and pain that she
apparently enjoys so much.