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I wish you strength and inner peace. I can truly relate to your situation on so many levels. You are not alone, we are not alone.. and that makes us stronger. Peace, icare

Clairbear, thank you. As I said previously, I had been through the trauma of the same heinous crime before she had been, so not only do I believe her, I empathize with her. S

Amethist, You are spot on. We have been together about 9 years, through thick and thin, which makes this sudden void so hard to face. You could say I am mourning the loss of the 'way we used to be' part. When she told me that she had just been raped, it opened up my long standing PTSD of my...

Thank you, Jawn. I have read a number of stories similar to ours in the short space that I have been on today, and I have been reading the articles on the main page. The best advice in this case (and sometimes the most painful) is the time and space bit. The commitment is the easiest, as I have...

All, thank you for your support and your encouragement. This will be a rough and rugged road for us, but one that I have already committed myself to. I am in this for the long haul. Thank you.

Everyone, Thank you for your prompt and kind replies. I should have clarified that it is really PTS and not PTSD and that she is in fact seeing a therapist already. That being said, the sudden abrupt loss of closeness, taken together with knowing the pain she feels, is itself traumatizing.

Hello, I am new here so please forgive my social awkwardness. :) Someone I love and have loved for close to a decade was brutally assaulted about a month ago, and she is having all the visible signs of PTSD. As often happens in such cases, she has put up a wall and has almost shut me out of...