I’ve been with my boyfriend for 5 months, long distance, I’ve known about him being bi-polar from the beginning. Sometimes I’ll go days without speaking to him, and most recently an entire week after a fight we had. He suggested that things might not be working (mostly my fault). He ended up taking it all back and planned a weekend for us to spend some time together….and then literally vanished without a word. Obviously never showed up for the weekend either. He wouldn’t respond to my emails or phone calls. Of course I thought, this is a terrible way to break up with me but he’s being a coward. I also tried to be understanding and keep in mind that this may be one of his episodes but, he was able to get up and make it to work. He finally sent me a text saying he’d like to talk but again it seems to be a struggle to get him to call. beyond that acting as though things are normal again though he has not yet apologized to me. Is this normal behavior for somebody who is bipolar to do in a relationship? to disappear in times of depression or mania? I’ve been reading up about bipolar relationships but I still can’t be sure. I know our relationship wasn’t perfect but I tried, I can’t imagine what I could have done otherwise to elicit such a response from somebody. Keep in mind, he said “I love you” first and claims to have gotten the job and car he has now for me and then suddenly out of nowhere says it’s not working. I’ll assume that if this is not normal, it’s just a case of the classic, he’s met somebody else.