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How to support a depressed partner while acknowledging your own limits

My wife is going through a really dark depression and I want to support her but I'm also drowning trying to hold everything together, and we can't seem to talk about my limits without her feeling abandoned.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love sometimes requires us to hold both deep care and honest limitations, even when that feels impossible.

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