Recent content by LittleMermaid

@EveHarrington @Sweetpea76 @Sighs Thank you guys... the way you are explaining it makes a lot of sense to me. I can see where a new relationship and dealing with long distance on top of that may have caused certain situations that overwhelmed him emotionally. As soon as things got complicated...

"handle your own emotions?" - just because I am in a relationship with a PTSD sufferer doesn't mean I'm going to master it from the beginning. Nobody warned me of this or anything. He claims he is fine and that nothing is changing. I am doing all of this on my own, the research and educating in...

What do you mean by emotional numbness? Is this temporary or permanent?

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Seems like our situations are similar. I went through this situation with him twice now. First the overwhelming, almost too-good-to-be-true connection of finding your soulmate, which is only a few weeks after followed by this slump and complete...

Thank you all for your responses. I will definitely read the article and be more aware of not adding more stress to his life that he is already dealing with. Maybe be a lot more passive. What do you mean by emotional numbness? Is this temporary or permanent?

First off, I would like to apologize for the lengthy post. I am currently struggling in my brand new relationship with a PTSD sufferer and don’t know who to talk to. So I signed up for this forum to get these feelings off my chest and see if anybody else has the same experiences and hopefully...

Hi Yourghost, I'm going through something very similar and it is extremely difficult for me to handle the situation given the fact that we just started being in a romantic relationship and he checked out on me just a few weeks into it. Additionally, we are long distance, so I am having such a...