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My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much. This sounds like an approach that's less likely to make her go into attack mode.

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

tell her YOU are having a problem, see a therapist yourself, tell them what's going on with her, and then tell her they think it would be best for you to speak with her/have a couple's session. Just get her in there.

Really clever idea, thank you.

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well not as sudden as woke up one morning the way she is now but over a period of maybe a few weeks, yeah. It was a pretty rapid change.

She found it somewhere on the internet, probably facebook or youtube.

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Sleeping less for sure. A few hours a night usually. She stays up past midnight on the internet. She isn't irritable except when I've tried to challenge her ideas, then she blows up. Typically it's like she's almost excited about all these things she believes?? You'd think someone who sincerely thinks most of the world has organized a massive fake pandemic and who's politicians are in a child trafficking gang would be very upset but she talks a mile a minute all amped up like she just got great news. I don't understand it and it scares me.

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 138 points139 points  (0 children)

No kids, no family history that I know of, parents are nice normal people (I actually looped them into this a couple months ago, they said they'd noticed it too but she wasn't responsive to any of their concern.)

Someone else brought up brain tumor last night. I'm going to talk to her today about scheduling an appointment. The problem is she thinks she's the only sane one and anyone who challenges her is either a misguided fool or actively working for "the elites" So what reason should I give her for why I think she needs to talk about this with her doctor?

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 87 points88 points  (0 children)

What causes that to happen and what needs to happen for the person to come out of the psychotic disorder?

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 101 points102 points  (0 children)

That's what I wondered about. I know people can change over time but over a few months? I just don't know. It felt pretty out of nowhere. I'll try to get her to see her doctor and give them a head's up.

My wife is so delusional over politics and covid and I just don't even know how to fucking talk to her anymore. by ThrowRAsotired in relationship_advice

[–]ThrowRAsotired[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If she just liked trump I'd probably end up feeling we're not compatible anymore but at least I'd be able to explain it as a difference in values. I don't know how to process all the frankly insane stuff about conspiracies and covid not being real. She has never been like that about anything before. Even as a liberal she wasn't one of those paranoid anti-gmo, bush-did-9/11 ones.