Recent content by brightonguy

This is really interesting, I'd be interested to hear how this progresses, my thinking was if the person is not in a good place on the 6th then maybe this would add extra pressure but I guess if you are not communicating on the days before hand then maybe this acts in a good way? I ordered it...

@emz315 She does. She has said that she knows and trusts that I would never do anything to her but I can see sometimes she is constantly on edge, sometimes it calms but sometimes it doesn't. Out of curiousity, what kind of boundaries did you set? I hadn't read anything about that on this forum

It's really amazing to see the concensus from all of you on this, this makes so much sense. I think I had already accepted the numbing and avoidance and made peace with the fact she will disappear but this just makes it all the easier to understand and accept even more.

This hits a chord, now I remember she's even said it to me in so many words, that she wants to be close to me but she can't.. it's heart breaking for me and her to have these conflicting feelings I guess this is the element I feel like I can do nothing about but i feel like each time we go...

Thank you so much Scout86. This makes perfect sense the way you've described it. I guess when the 'dawn' appears this is probably when you just start even thinking about beginning to reach out again. I guess as the partner there is this fear that the person might not actually come back but as...

Hi, I'm the partner of somebody with PTSD, we don't live together but she is currently in the avoidance phase, I'm not sure if I should call it a phase as such, so apologies if that offends. I've accepted and understand why she does this, she needs to take a break from being overwhelmed by...