Dear serenesunshine:

For some women suffering anxiety and depression, being in a relationship with a decent man, and I am assuming you are, can be a comforting thing, something that is likely to discourage panic attacks, or when experiencing panic attacks the woman my reach out to you, her boyfriend, for comfort. In this case her panic attacks lead her to break off the relationship. I am assuming, again, that her anxiety is about being trapped in a relationship, or it is about being abandoned and rejected the moment she relaxes into it.

Did you talk about her particular anxiety- the origin, her childhood, what scares her…?

anita