When we have healthy boundaries with others, it frees us up to truly experience compassion and love for them.
Stay close to others who can help you stay in reality...living with someone with a serious mental illness can cause you to distort reality. This means you might allow unhealthy behaviors to happen, ignore your own mental and physical health, or miss important danger cues.
Share that light with your children so they can see the difference between a shrinking life and an expansive life.