Do You Love Someone Who Suffers From Depression?

Relationships in which one individual is depressed are nine times more likely to divorce. Wow, the normal divorce rate is already over 60% nationally! But, it’s not always a spouse who is depressed, sometimes it is a child or an extended family member.

In this article, however, we’ll be focusing on depressed partners. Most people agree that marriage should be 50/50. We all know this is an ideal, and, with the ebb-and-flow of marriage, the percentages slide up and down but should do so in both directions. For instance, one week the wife gives 70% and the husband 30% and another week the husband give 80% and the wife 20%. This is the way “ideal” marriages work.

Unfortunately, this is not the case when chronic depression enters the marriage. Let’s say that the husband has chronic depression. The wife may pick up many of the tasks that would customarily fall to the husband. Depending on how long this goes on, an avalanche of negative momentum begins.

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