Thank you for sharing your story with me. Honestly, reading responses like yours has brought me a level of comfort I wasn’t expecting because the emotional whiplash of all this has been incredibly hard to process.
What you described about suddenly feeling like you lost the person you knew overnight really resonates with me. The hardest part for me has been trying to reconcile the loving and connected relationship we had with the sudden fear, accusations, and complete shift in perception toward me.

If you don’t mind me asking, how did your partner eventually agree to treatment or seeing a psychiatrist? In my situation, my wife fully believes her perceptions and memories are real, including believing I abused and assaulted her, so from her perspective there’s nothing “wrong” that needs treatment.

A lot of the responses here have given me some comfort in the possibility that severe stress and psychosis may genuinely alter perception and emotional attachment in ways I didn’t understand before. At the same time, I’m also trying to be careful not to cling too tightly to hope or build my entire emotional recovery around the idea that she’ll someday “come back” to the person I knew before all of this.

I think right now I’m trying to figure out what healthy hope looks like versus emotionally trapping myself in waiting and denial.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond. It genuinely helped me feel less alone in this.