tl;dr - anxiety is really hurting my fiancée’s ability to relax and it’s tough to know what I can help with.
My fiancée and I have been together for 5 years, known each other for 10 and have always had a strong relationship.
We really started getting close in grad school where we were both very focused on grades and spent a lot of time with the other GAs doing homework and planning the classes we taught. She was also President of her sorority, etc. on top of being a Honors/Summa Cum Laude/etc.
We are getting married in 8 months and wedding planning has been pretty smooth, aside from some minor freak outs about her dress and venues and all that but we’ve gotten through it relatively easily. Mostly because I’ve been able to refocus her on what we’ve gotten done already and convincing her we’re still way ahead of schedule. But the “planner” in her can be tough to convince sometimes.
I know she’d go through bouts of anxiety periodically in school but it really hasn’t been bad throughout our relationship until very recently. We are both very aware of mental health and try to do what we can to help (take mental health days off work, daily checkins with each other, etc.) so we are good in that regard. But some days she gets hit hard with anxiety as things come up and I’m worrying that it will affect other parts of our relationship that are solid.
We’re going to start looking for a doctor to see if she can get some help there (medication, therapy, etc.) but I wanted to see if anyone has some non-medical related advice on ways I can help her stay stress free when we’re at home. Thanks in advance!
Submitted August 24, 2021 at 05:23AM by throwRA-112616 https://ift.tt/3y8Sqr3
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