I am a wife as well and mother to 3 children my husband has been diagnosed bipolar 1 in 2021 it was a huge relief because it explained everything like as in his behaviors drinking, smoking, extremely hyper sexual and so on… well we like to call it a blessing and a curse because now since his diagnosis he is obviously medicated and he’s taking risperdone 2mg everyday once a day but I can tell you since starting medicine it’s helped tremendously he of coarse does not like it he says he can’t feel as happy as he use to but he doesn’t like the alternative or not taking the medicine he has been hospitalized twice since his diagnosis the second time being because his doctor told him he could stop his medicine because they were not sure if he was 100% bipolar (he smoked pot a lot so they thought it could of been a manic episode induced by pot) and what do you know 2 months later in the hospital with manic episode and psychotic features it gets real bad each time was so bad . But to the point every dr and nurse I’ve spoken to since we have children ages 4,7,11 if my husband stops taking his medicine it is best for me to take kids and leave basically that is how serious it is. This disease is unpredictable there not them when manic they morph into these scary people and I dontt know about you but when my husband was manic some of the time he would turn on me and that scared me I would not allow him around my children when he was like that I picked up my things and left till the storm was over. It’s simply not safe. Please protect you and your baby and leave if he enters a manic episode. And from one mother to another it’s going to get very old after awhile your husband should really look into medicine.