thanks for the responses. Michelle, what you said was very true... that marriage isn't about "having fun together", it's about sticking together through the hard times.. and we've had our share of both fun and hard times, already. But sadly it has seemed lately like he is the one who is not willing to want to stick it out when things are hard, which makes me feel like I have to act happy all the time, and plan lots of fun stuff for us, otherwise the minute I get upset about something he will give up. Which is basically what happened yesterday.
I guess I probably should have realized earlier that his depression was getting worse again, but I kept thinking that I could make things better by doing the happy act. That was misguided on my part. We did talk some more last night and he said that the things he said were the depression talking more than him. I brought up the points similar to those from saveferris that there are tools that you can learn to deal with depression. He is being stubborn in thinking that nothing can help him. He seems to think this because depression is so entrenched with his life now.. he said he gets depressed every time he coughs or his stomach hurts (which is pretty frequent, at least the coughing side). I don't know. I guess I can't convince him if he's not willing to be open to the possibility that things could get better. That's pretty hard for me to accept. I don't want to give up on us. But I also don't want to be the only one willing to fight for us.
I guess I probably should have realized earlier that his depression was getting worse again, but I kept thinking that I could make things better by doing the happy act. That was misguided on my part. We did talk some more last night and he said that the things he said were the depression talking more than him. I brought up the points similar to those from saveferris that there are tools that you can learn to deal with depression. He is being stubborn in thinking that nothing can help him. He seems to think this because depression is so entrenched with his life now.. he said he gets depressed every time he coughs or his stomach hurts (which is pretty frequent, at least the coughing side). I don't know. I guess I can't convince him if he's not willing to be open to the possibility that things could get better. That's pretty hard for me to accept. I don't want to give up on us. But I also don't want to be the only one willing to fight for us.