My wife has just gotten to the point that she's given up trying to understand it. She's just come to realize that there's something going on in my head that she can't comprehend, so she tries to just be supportive. Over the years I could say I've put her through hell, and the fact that she's been so good to me just makes me love her more. But no one will ever say being married to a depressed person is easy.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell