
My husband is bi polar and I’m autistic so when he’s manic, he can talk and exist around me for hours and I don’t have to fully listen, I do listen enough to understand what’s happening but if he’s rabbit holing and just needs someone to hear him, I can be a fence post with ears vs when he’s depressed, he just wants to quietly exist near me and I can be the one who moves around and does stuff and I doubt this dynamic would work if we haven’t known each other since we were nine
We grew up orbiting each other to the point where we’re making new friends as adults and realizing our relationship is unique to us just because we have always been doing this little dance around each other, like it’s second nature. He goes zoom, I stay still, he stays still, and I go zoom. And around and around we go. It’s been 11 years now so it obviously works for us, probably no one else, but for us? It’s perfect