{"id":9102,"date":"2015-05-18T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:49","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-relationships-when-i-have-to-ask-myself-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-relationships-when-i-have-to-ask-myself-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Relationships:  When I have to ask myself, should I stay or should I go&#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9103\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" alt=\"crazy men blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog.png\" width=\"358\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog.png 496w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog-150x117.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog-400x312.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My answer is completely dependent on how the other person is affecting my bipolar disorder!<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a cafe answering my coaching inquiries and heard these song lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><em>Loving you was never good for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived in that world with a few men and I&#8217;m very happy to say that I stopped the behavior 100%.\u00a0 I learned that having someone in my life who makes my bipolar disorder worse isn&#8217;t an option.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a zero tolerance policy for ANYONE who willingly makes my bipolar disorder worse. It&#8217;s not about them-\u00a0 I don&#8217;t control the behavior of others, but I sure as heck can decide to stay or go.<\/p>\n<p>I made the decision to GO! GO! GO! when my bipolar disorder is triggered.<\/p>\n<p>This was years ago and I&#8217;m happy and stable now. So much of my bipolar disorder was about <em>my<\/em> behavior around romantic relationships. When I removed the equation, I started to heal and became more stable.<\/p>\n<p>You can do the same. Should I stay or should I go is another great song lyric. Life became so simple for me when I left the people who hurt me. Life is even better now that I don&#8217;t let them into my life at all!<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9103\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" alt=\"crazy men blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog.png\" width=\"358\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog.png 496w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog-150x117.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/crazy-men-blog-400x312.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My answer is completely dependent on how the other person is affecting my bipolar disorder! <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at a cafe answering my coaching inquiries and heard these song lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>Loving you was never good for me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived in that world with a few men and I&#8217;m very happy to say that I stopped the behavior 100%. I learned that having someone in my life who makes my bipolar disorder worse isn&#8217;t an option.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a zero tolerance policy for ANYONE who willingly makes my bipolar disorder worse. It&#8217;s not about them- I don&#8217;t control the behavior of others, but I sure as heck can decide to stay or go.<\/p>\n<p>I made the decision to GO! GO! GO! when my bipolar disorder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-relationships-when-i-have-to-ask-myself-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11203,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/11203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}