Is Your Partner’s Mental Illness Creating A Cycle Of Abuse?

Hallie Lyons
6 min readNov 27, 2019
Photo by _Mxsh_ on Unsplash

Love is hard enough as it is, but being in love with someone with a mental illness can present unique challenges to a relationship. How do you balance taking care of someone else with taking care of yourself? How can you juggle the roles of partner and therapist, lover and caretaker? When does it become too much, and how can you end a relationship without feeling as though you’re risking…

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