I spoke with Anna Martin on the Modern Love Podcast about devotion, depression, and the possibility of getting a couples suite at NYU Psychiatric Hospital. Listen here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/podcasts/my-husbands-breakdown-was-my-breakthrough.html?smid=url-share
listening to your story from the Netherlands. Thank you for such a warming work. I went through a similar period and I still feel guilty towards my loved ones.
I certainly can’t tell you how to feel, but I will say that your presence here, reaching out from a place far from where I am, to share your experience, is beautiful and worthwhile and maybe the whole point of why we are here in the first place. Be well.
I listened to your story this morning, while walking my dog. It is heart wrenchingly beautiful Thank you for sharing. Wishing you and Jonathan a long and beautiful life together.
Thank you so much for reaching out, and for your kind words.
Stephanie, reading your story a few weeks ago was wonderful. Listening to you on the podcast was like a watching a whole movie. So many things to connect to. Especially the thanksgiving dinner you hosted, and living life as it is.
My phone has alarms for adhd meds, antidepressants, therapy appointments. There is a checklist for what to do when my teen gets a panic attack, and a checklist for what to do if she is having suicidal thoughts and has dissapeared for hours, including checking which shoes and jacket have been taken, and a recent picture to show the police. PTSD.
Like you did, sometimes I sleep alot after several psych ward admissions. I do not know what will finally work. But we do laugh alot. Like the time my daughter told me, mummy in the ambulance the policeman asked me what I was staring at. I asked him why they wear such tight pants. Oh boy! Well at least he explained why, after a good giggle from the EMT staff.
I really wish you and your beautiful family easy times and much much laughter.
Sheila, Ottawa.