Poll PTSD and Marriage - How Many Times Have You Been Married?

[ruddy]

Married twice - divorced and widowed.

 

[anthony]

Ohhh.... good poll sunnydaze.... Mine was twice.... can apply for divorce from the second one in a week....

 

[lrs]

Just once, still married, will be 22 years in June.

 

[sunnydaze]

feel like a loser

Wow guys, I thought the poll would be more marriages and divorces. I'm starting to feel like a real loser. I thought most people going throught this PTSD did like me making poor choces. I am glad many of you found partners that stayed with you through thick and thin. Never thought the poll would have this outcome. To me : L
sunnydaze

 

[Chissi]

I was married 27 years; divorced since 1993. One two year relationship right after divorce. Thank goodness I didn't marry him!

Chissi

 

[morgan]

I've been in 4 commited relationships, 3 of them cheated on me which in turn triggered me and the last one abused me mercilessly. I'm pretty much done with the whole idea.

 

[baileysemt]

I can't trust enough, get intimate enough, to get anywhere near marrying someone...

And I can't see the logic in even dating someone, before I am healed and healthy. Otherwise my problems are just going to seriously screw up the relationship.

So, I am still single, with no prospects. :)

Bailey

 

[grace5555]

awww, Bailey - you are in my mind...scary place to be. lol I can't even handle dating - how in the hell could I be married...then screw him up? No, guess not any time soon.

 

[TDurden1937]

I've struck out enough to end the inning in a baseball game. Seems I figured that every time I "feel in love" I should get married.

Married to my third wife again now. How I ever managed to mess up my domestic life is still rather a mystery to me.

I think that after I got out of the navy, having become toxic from that, and my bloody ****ing father, I should have taken the vows and never gotten married, but gone into the priesthood or something, eh. But then I never would have had my son, the best thing I ever did for the bloody world, eh.

Some people should never marry . . . I was one of them. Think I must have used it to keep from facing myself. I always found that when I was single, my demons were stark, easier to see, not pleasant, but also easier to deal with then, eh.

But the feeling of comfort so implicit in falling in love was . . . is such a comfort. Unfortunately, the bliss is too short lived in me. Then the PTSD'd kick in an I'd go numb.

 

[indigo~in~0z]

im on my first almost 6 years..

nightmare almost on a daily basis..

if this one doesnt survive tho, i aint goin back for more.... the only thing i want is freedom!

 

[Deleted member 1606]

Sucks

PTSD has destroyed every deep relationship I've had.

 

[vietnam2nd]

i had one bad marriage that was anough for me. the worse thing my ex wife took my children away from me. i hope know that their adults they will look me up and fine out their mom lie i am not a monster. she cheated on me so the break up of are marriage was more than me suffing from ptsd and using alchol to cover it up my ex was and alcholic also. so both sides were at fault for the break up of are marriage.