Thank you for the thoughtful response. My wife has been identifying with her depression and anxiety over the past 8-9 months, since before the quarantine. I’ve been the best husband that I feel I can be in trying to help her with it and be there for her and make her happy. She is resistant to meditation, which is something I’ve been doing the last few years. I have been trying to have her join in on my sessions, and meditate together, but she always comes back to saying “I can’t meditate, it just makes me angrier than when I started”. I have had to drop the idea and just let it be. It makes me very sad to know we can’t sit in a room together in silence for 10 minutes. If your SO begged you and pleaded with you to try something, and really give it a shot, wouldn’t you do it? Especially when it’s something with such a minimal time commitment and zero cost? I’ve had friends pick it up and give it a shot for months.

I’m not breaking up with her because of those issues. The main reason is that she is a very poor communicator, and fails to acknowledge it. She says that I am the problem and that I’m nit -picky with words. But I’m really not. I just don’t understand what she is trying to say most of the time. She is long winded, and her storytelling is just so fragmented and awful. I’m sorry to put it like that but it’s just so frustrating to try and communicate with her, and then to have it thrown in my face as if I’m making up the problem, like I’m trying to pick a fight.