{"id":894134,"date":"2026-10-25T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894134\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:00:08","slug":"asking-eric-friends-and-counselors-tell-husband-to-leave-but-he-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894134\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Eric: Friends and counselors tell husband to leave, but he won\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NSLXTSCFLRDUDLM75AM4H3Z7LQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Eric: I am 75 years old. My wife and I have been married for 45 years. My wife suffers from treatment-resistant depression and\/or bipolar disorder. My wife has been undergoing treatment of various kinds for 30 years without success.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DDKRVQ67JRARTIOP3GWBXGV5BA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Mental health professionals and close friends have told me that my wife is damaging my mental health and advise me to leave. I have not left her because I vowed not to do so, and she is dependent on me. She would be devastated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Eric: I am 75 years old. My wife and I have been married for 45 years. My&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-894134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}