If I used only logic when deciding whether or not I feel that your relationship with this highly disturbed man has a future, to be honest I would not give it much of a chance. On the surface it appears that there are too many factors which are acting against this relationship being a relatively happy and lasting one.
But when I consult my own inner guidance about this I get a very different perspective or viewpoint on the matter. While I of course cannot guarantee that whatever you are able to do to get him to come around to your way of thinking is going to work either in the short or longer term, your reading is saying that if any woman could achieve this formidable feat then that woman would be you.
I sense that you have always taken a highly practical step by step approach to overcoming challenges placed in your path, and the huge challenge you face with this man is no different in this regard. Rather than you making a dramatic breakthrough with him all at one time, I feel that it is going to be a long and drawn out campaign of gradually getting his trust a small part at a time. Especially in a paranoid schizophrenic his ability to trust anyone is highly compromised, and you will therefore need to tread softly and gradually wear away the protective barrier he has built around himself in order to finally get through.
One of the conditions of you going ahead with this is that he must be regularly taking his prescribed medications for his illness. If he is not willing to do this, then I feel that your situation is hopeless and I would not then wish you to beat your head against what would be effectively a brick wall and wrongly conclude that it was a failure on your part.
In other words this man who is also like yourself far from being a teenager must accept a certain amount of responsibility for any difficulties you are now facing as a couple. Only you can and should decide when it is time to call it a day and not to continue to beat yourself up any longer for something which is not your fault.
While the reading is encouraging you to persevere with this by a step by step practical approach everyone including yourself has a limit beyond which it is time to recognise that you did everything you possibly could to make the relationship work, but that unfortunately it was not meant to be. I would definitely not want you to go into this with rose coloured glasses, believing that I am telling you that you should put up with this sorry situation indefinitely, or that if you did fail to get through to him that I would think lesser of you.
I admire and respect your efforts to get through to the man you obviously still have such deep feelings for (you would not have persevered this far if you did not), and I only wish there was some magic formula I could offer you to help regain his trust. But at present I do feel that there is a strong bond of love between you that when combined with the gradual, practical approach you are so good at could just make this partnership work if he is both capable and willing to also take his own share of the responsibility for whatever happens between you from now on.
Wishing you much future happiness and I really do hope that things work out for you both in the long run. If it eventually does become crystal clear that the relationship no longer has a future, it is always easier said than done but you will need to let him go in both your mind and heart, giving another man who is capable of returning the love you feel for him to give you the type of love you so richly deserve. Love can sometimes work miracles that logic would immediately ignore as being totally unrealistic and even impossible.
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