Advice needed

Hello

I am writing for advice, sadly my partner (who is awaiting an autism diagnosis) and I are at breaking point. We were due to get married next year but it seems unlikely now. For the past few years, my partner has been in and out of work which he feels is due to his aspergers and struggling being around others. I have done my best to be supportive and said I am happy to be the main breadwinner until he finds a remote job. However, I have found it really tough and although I have tried my best to be supportive when he is getting frustrated having no replies to jobs, I am losing hope too and he is having more and more meltdowns. We just spent Christmas with my family in which there was a lot of talk about what people do for jobs and he is very down now. 

I feel in a dilemma what to do as I love him very much, but I feel we need space apart although he said he will end it all if we did this. 

My question is, who can I ask for support? He has no money, no family or friends and no where else to go. I feel so lost and want to make it work but it's affecting my mental health and his also. I rang the council but they wouldn't help.  

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  • My question is, who can I ask for support?

    I don't want to offer any explicit advice as it just seems to get me cancelled these days but I can suggest you look in the Urgent Help part of the site:

    https://www.autism.org.uk/contact-us/urgent-help

    They can help in cases where things are desperate.

    You could also suggest he signs up here and asks his own questions so he can feel he is in more control of the situation rather than having it done for him.

    If the relationship is suffering then a couples therapist with a strong background with autistic patients would be a great way to start but I would think he will also benefit from getting his own therapist - it could be the same therapist (I did this with good results) so long as you agree what can be shared between private and couples sessions.

    What are his special interests? These can sometimes give us a prompt for how to find a niche that would work for him.

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  • My question is, who can I ask for support?

    I don't want to offer any explicit advice as it just seems to get me cancelled these days but I can suggest you look in the Urgent Help part of the site:

    https://www.autism.org.uk/contact-us/urgent-help

    They can help in cases where things are desperate.

    You could also suggest he signs up here and asks his own questions so he can feel he is in more control of the situation rather than having it done for him.

    If the relationship is suffering then a couples therapist with a strong background with autistic patients would be a great way to start but I would think he will also benefit from getting his own therapist - it could be the same therapist (I did this with good results) so long as you agree what can be shared between private and couples sessions.

    What are his special interests? These can sometimes give us a prompt for how to find a niche that would work for him.

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