Hello everyone. I am a 43 year old mom of three boys, 24-21-and 7. Grandmother to a girl and boy. both one year old now. I have three dogs, all dachshunds, two cats-one inside and one outside, one guinee pig, ten hens and a lone fish.
I love being outdoors with my youngest son.
I no longer have a relationship with my oldest son. I have chose to not be mistreated by him and his wife. They refuse to bring the baby to see me and I have cut them off financially. They live with her parents and we are not very welcome there. They refuse to let me see my grand daughter anywhere but there. He lies a lot and makes his family look bad to outsiders that don't know the difference. It is healther for me to cut ties than continue on in a toxic relationship with them.
My mom and dad passed when I was young, 13 when dad passed-23 when mom passed. I felt completed alone and abandoned. That was very difficult to deal with. I was married to an abusive spouse at the time my mom passed. He became much more controling and abusive. It was hell on earth not knowing what was wrong with me and being abused at the same time I was grieving the loss of my mom. I stayed married to him another seven years.
I divorced and remarried four years later. My husband of eight years is so loving and supportive. He is the love of my life! He is the reason I got diagnosed! He has far above average intellegence and noticed all BP ethe signs. He set me down one night and told me he thought I had Bipolar. I was shocked. Then he calmly went through all the symptoms with me. It took another six months or so for me to talk to my doctor about the random thoughs of suicide while being happy. He started asking questions. He looked back at 20 years of medical history and started saying how did we miss this!! We should have caught this years ago. So here I am in my 40's trying to take one day at a time. I celebrate good days and try not be be too hard on myself. I am so glad to find this site. So many questions have already been answered. Thanks everyone! Angie