YES dude! Even if your partner isn't suffering from severe mental illness, don't let them crowd out your friends and interests! You need to have a life outside of them!
Hell this whole story in a nutshell is three people who had this impulse to shrink their life down to one person for various reasons (and from various traumas) and how that has consequences. That shit is only cute in fiction where we can ignore the repercussions!
YES dude! Even if your partner isn't suffering from severe mental illness, don't let them crowd out your friends and interests! You need to have a life outside of them!
Hell this whole story in a nutshell is three people who had this impulse to shrink their life down to one person for various reasons (and from various traumas) and how that has consequences. That shit is only cute in fiction where we can ignore the repercussions!