I have written this out about 100 times so here it goes. About a month ago my husband was finally and officially diagnosed with Tourette’s. We had assumed that’s what it was for a while. I cannot speak to his overall feeling about it but for me the very concept of it being forever is heavy. I’m the kind of person who has to talk about things out loud and process them with others because I feel my emotions so intensely all the time… almost like getting it out releases the power these emotions have over me. My husband is the opposite and doesn’t need or want that. I feel like I should be allowed to want to have the conversations with him. Because while it isn’t me suffering through tic issues and a new diagnosis, he is my husband and I do plan to spend the rest of my life with him. So it’s not like it doesn’t affect me. I want to be here to support him and help him but I am worried that if I bring up the situation it will come off as “making this all about me“ I need some input, does it sound selfish to need to talk this through? I especially don’t want him to feel like I am insinuating that he is a burden or that this is too much of a burden. Because that is not where my heart is at. What do you guys think I should do? Maybe get myself back into therapy and vent about it there? I don’t want to do that mostly because he is the person I am in this with. I genuinely just wish that there was something I could do to help. But in all honesty I need help too. This is hard and I just want him to open up to me a little bit. Gets really hard to google not just assume that he feels as heavy about this as I do.