Nerve reporter Justin Clark, who climbed a pyramid on the set of American Gladiators for us earlier this month, today tackles the more sobering subject of dating someone who has bipolar disorder.
Our relationship became defined by obsessive routine, something that
might normally have made me feel antsy and restless. But because Sara
clung to the structure so fervently, I followed her lead. I began to
drop off the social map. The parameters of our life together drew
further and further inward, until we were living in a tiny, airtight
box created by the quirks of her disorder. I became not only her
enabler, but her progeny as well.
Read the rest here.
