My Husband has been Bi Polar for 20yrs, he has grown worse as we have gone along and now he is rapid cycling and cuts him self off from everyone in a bid to get well. We have 3 young children and a beautiful home we struggled together for all these years to get where we are now, and I have always been there for him,We lost our business and became insolvent due to his illness I have been verbally abused,mentally tortured and even subjected to rape. But I still love him.There are times when I could happily walk away and who could blame me? not one person.I guess I am living in the hope that we will be able to stablize his illness and resume our lives together as a family,I just hope that day comes before the one when for my own sanity and that of the children I will have to walk away from my soulmate.It is an illness and those of us who are well can see that, its not bad behavior.