After being diagnosed in January 2009, starting therapy and meds while unemployed and getting a new job that year, DH is unemployed again since December. Although is ADHD is not in control, this job loss is not totally his fault. Change of leadership, wanting to cut at the top to save money, finding nits to get people to quit. DH asked for accommodations, they wouldn't and blamed him, he was advised by his lawyer to quit and file a complaint with Human Rights. That's underway.
He was diagnosed last week with depression.
Things have been getting from bad to worse at home though. Stress at work not helping granted. Arguing, lying etc... But what makes it worse is the blaming. I have been crying almost everyday for over a year now, exhausted, overwhelmed and blamed for our issues: I am not loving enough to him, not empathetic, not caring, not affectionate etc..
Then it turned into me being the reason for my own sadness: he is loving, supportive and caring to me, I just refuse to see it so it's my own fault.
Now I am emasculating him, bitchy and abusive.
This stems out of me asking for help (I'm bitchy), asking him to stick to the family budget, especially important now that he is unemployed - I manage it, pay all the bills, do our taxes etc... - (I'm emasculating him). I ask him to treat me as an equal and contribute so that I don't have to do so much (I'm abusive).
Today he's upset because I left for work, he was still in bed, and I didn't ask him how he is feeling or enquire about his appointment for his new meds.
He is also upset because this week I told him that I hate feeling this way: I don't want to go to work but have no choice and i don't want to come home but have no choice either. He is upset but tells me I am the one who needs help but 1. I can't leave my job. 2. I can't ask him for help, he is depressed I need to understand and although he realizes he could be more supportive, I am the one who refuses to see ANY support he is giving me. 3. I need to get help. 4. If only I was more loving to him, things would be better.
I am late to work again today, after crying again this morning.
I hate my life.
EDITED to add: After reading other posts, noting that the other source of arguments is this: He will say hurtful things then deny he said them and remember as a fact that he said nice things or corrected things or apologized when he didn't. He will assume I think things that I don't, mean things other than what I am saying, attack him when I am not etc... Then he will argue that I am wrong.
Your post hurts my heart....sdelo7
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(He will say hurtful things then deny he said them and remember as a fact that he said nice things or corrected things or apologized when he didn't. He will assume I think things that I don't, mean things other than what I am saying, attack him when I am not etc... Then he will argue that I am wrong.) This comment you posted at the end...It's what many people (me for one) deal with...Add may be partly responsible, but, I've come to realize in my own marriage regardless of the the reason it exists, it effectively kills any ability to communicate in a good way.
All of us have baggage, all of us have insecurities. I didn't want to admit mine, mostly because of blindness and pride... But, until I did, I didn't know how to end (or at least slow down) this cycle of pain and heart break you are describing here about your life...When a spouse lives like this statement of yours that I high lighted, there is no way anything good will come out of a conversation with them...Especially concerning a serious issue, and double especially, if its about them....
So many of us make our identity our mate/marriage...We live and die, based on the actions of another...I suggest you take a deep breathe, focus on your own peace and sanity...Listen to him, be nice...But, do not jump in or engage hopelessness, and unwise words...that just genders strife, and poisons' our hearts. It's OK to walk away and not defend yourself...It's healing...
I will pray for you!
C