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Long story, my boyfriend and I have been together 8 months. We don’t exist in perfect harmony at all, and we’ve had more than our fair share of problems that weren’t our fault, but caused by outside circumstances, (our families, my mental illness, etc.)
Anyways, this past month or so, my boyfriend has been showing signs of bipolar disorder. He’s been very up and down. One minute he thinks he’s going to be successful and the next he’s down in the dumps for days on end about how he’ll never get anywhere. If I ask him a question he gets agitated easily, and he’s been overusing weed and alcohol.
a week ago he went back to his hometown and asked me for some space because he hadn’t seen his friends in a year and just wanted to focus on them for a few days. I’m all for that, except with anxiety, that’s really difficult. So by Monday, he said that I annoyed him too much and that he was finally done, blocked me on most of social media and didn’t talk to me. I’ve been giving him space, and then two days later he sent me a song that said “he loves me but he needs to stop hurting me and let me move on”
i decided the other day to go out with my GAY friend my boyfriend has met many times before and I posted it on every social media account I had because I’m an extra person and I had to. And my boyfriend got angry simply because he was male, and blocked my remaining accounts.
im just very confused because right before he left to go home he was talking about our future together and the way we would start a family... how can someone lie about that? And how Can I fix this?

I'm wondering because I would like to have children one day but I don't want to put them through what I went through :'(...
I feel like I can be there for them or he/she and I would know most of the signs of a mental illness. Or do I sound completely naive?

Apparently many people see mental illness as a sign of weakness. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-weldon/public-attitudes-about-me_b_7160960.html

I think that mentally ill people are strong for putting up with what they do.

As Carrie Fisher put it: "One of the things that baffles me is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of [courage]... At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of."