I was home alone but I still found myself looking over my shoulder as I typed it into Google: “How to support a partner with depression”. I hit backspace and went in for a second attempt: “How to know if your partner has depression.”
It was a stiflingly hot Sunday in July and though I didn’t know it yet, I was two days away from the most painful breakup of my life. What I did know was that my boyfriend Matt* needed help. And I was starting to fear he was choosing to push me away than address the real problem behind his sudden withdrawal into the distant, uncommunicative, emotionally-unavailable stranger he’d become in recent months.
