How do you maintain a healthy relationship with someone when you both are mentally ill?

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A checklist of things:

• Patience. 
• Discuss boundaries. If those boundaries aren’t working, rediscuss them. 
• Empathy and understanding. Their trauma might be very different from your own. Take time to learn what sets each other off.
• Patience.
• Be honest with one another, as much as possible. Learn how to say no. Learn how to say yes. 
• Self-care, whatever that means–whether it’s isolating yourself for a bit or taking a night for the two of you.
• Take care of each other. Ask them to help you. Offer to help them. 
• Patience. 
• Patience.
• Please be patient, as much as you can be. Recovery is a hard road that, I think, never ends. You’re in this together. Make that a blessing.