I have a few questions I am new to this whole PTSD thing and I really am not sure if this is 100% the cause for my boyfriend to break up with me it may just be a combination of things. I have been going through a divorce was married for 20 years no kids however while doing so three months ago I met this really great guy or so I thought with the same Christian Values as me. He said all the right things told me how wonderful I was, how beautiful I was how I was his soul mate, ect. I being in a venerable state ate it up like candy! He is a Police Officer and started as one in the Military. He suffers from PTSD and has had custody of his son for the last 15 years who is now 17 and just graduated from high school. His graduation set off what he calls empty nest episode and when I would travel the hour to go see him he would drink the entire weekend I was there to visit him and be a different person than when he would just come visit me for the day. I asked him not to drink when I was around or call when he had been. He didn't respect that and on July 4 was the worst and I we almost broke up, it was to be my husband and I's 20th anniversary and we have signed papers yet so I needed him to kind of be there for me but he chose to drink the entire day. Then that week the Dallas shootings happened and he lost it and started to push me away. I not understanding was trying to be there for him by trying to cheer him up I didn't know that all he really needed was to be left alone. I had no clue was PTSD was and what it meant for him. He said he was in a bad place I tried to understand but I know now by my constant texting him all I was doing was pushing him further away. All I was doing was looking for validation that he was still there but I ruined things. A week and a half ago the night before I was to go sign my divorce papers he asked for a brake. This was the worst night he could have done this I was on overload and already depressed and went off on him and asked him if he was willing to take the risk of loosing me to someone else during that time and a few other things I didn't mean! I instantly knew I had said the wrong thing and tried to apologize via text, he cut me off of Facebook, and wouldn't respond to me. He finally did and said he needed to be alone with his thoughts and then Friday at 1:30 am text me if I was up and needed closure. When I got up yesterday I finally go him to call me at 11:00am I could tell he had already been drinking. I apologized again and said I was okay with taking a break as long as I knew he would be there and that I woudnt be looking for anyone. He said it was in fact the comment I had made about willing to loose me and that we didn't have a future when up until I had made that comment he had been saying how much he loved me. He then said he wanted to be friends. I told him I didn't think so because of how he hurt me when I was in a venerable spot and he knew it (he does crisis intervention). He said he had meant everything he said to me and that he loves me. How can someone flip their feelings like that? Is it because I pushed him away and didn't respect his boundaries? I also wonder if it is because I didn't like his drinking? I really cared about this guy we had so much in common and his kid was great as well! I feel like its all my fault! I am not sure why I am so upset we dated such a short amount of time. I have been reading a lot on PTSD and he sees a counselor but I think he needs more than that but who am I to judge. I told him I would pray for him and that I hoped life would be kind to him. Do you think this is the last I will here from him?