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Update: I don't know if I want to be married anymore. (by Sparky)

 Sparky (0)  (29 / M-F / Massachusetts)
7-Jan-20 4:30 pm
Update: I don't know if I want to be married anymore.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationshi...m_source=share
I didn't think I'd have an update this soon, but I do.
He saw my post the day after. He picked up my phone and I had just left a comment so it was still up on the screen. I was terrified to be honest. When I saw him holding the phone I knew and I almost threw up. I was prepared to leave with the kids and just go wherever I could because I didn't know how he'd react. He was ******. But he wasn't out of control and wanted to talk about it. He asked if I was seriously considering leaving and if I agreed with the comments about him being abusive. I told him I wasn't going to continue to subject my kids to his anger issues anymore. He cried, apologized and said he couldn't live with himself anymore
He ended up leaving the house and tbh, I didn't think he was going to come back and was going to kill himself. My feelings for him may not be the same anymore, but that's a really ****ing scary place to be in with someone you've been with for a decade and have children with. I heard from him a few hours later and he was at the hospital to voluntarily admit himself for 72 hours. I also found out that he'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder 25 years ago, long before I knew him, and hadn't been medicated since he was 17 or 18 because of a bad experience with meds. He never told me. It could be the reason for some of the issues. I don't know.
So he's in the hospital on suicide watch and getting treated for his issues. I'm going to stay with my mom and dad for a couple weeks, because I don't know where things are right now. The kids will miss some school, but it seems like the safest option for now. I don't know if this is a manipulation tactic, I don't know if this is just a way to keep me around, I don't know. I'm really confused right now. He seemed genuinely distraught that I feel the way I do and kept apologizing for the way he treated my son. Saying he never meant to hurt him and that it was never his intention, that he was just doing what his dad did to him as a kid and didn't think it was wrong because he never left a mark. Maybe not physically, but emotionally he's definitely hurt him.
Oh and I'm going to get the kids into therapy with me, regardless of what happens.
So. Yea. That's where it's at for now.
TL;Dr Husband found my post, got really upset, apologized for his actions, left the house and checked into a mental hospital for 72 hours. Found out he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his teens but hasn't been medicated since he was 17-18. The kids and I are going to my parents for a couple weeks and I don't know what to do with this turn of events.


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