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My Combat vet with PTSD and I have been together for over 3 years and we didn't communicate because he isolated for almost 2 months. During that isolation period I found this site. I learned so much and have actually applied it or at least have tried to. I wondered the same thing, should I tell...

Thank you @TheMinsterman and @PatientFaith. We are all on a journey and encouraging each other I think is important. We have to be realistic about our individual situations. It's so hard to see our loved ones in a condition that's foreign to us all. Thank God we have each other.

So after almost a month of isolation from my PTSD combat vet, he came over yesterday. Last week I noticed that he seemed to be a little more open to communicating but yesterday he came over. I was to the moon! He just hugged and kissed me and we sat and talked and tried catching up. I didn't go...

If I may add, my retired combat vet who is THE MAN to everyone he encounters. His family (children especially, friends, coworkers everyone views him to be the strong, no nonsense man. In the middle of a disagreement and me challenging him about why he was acting a certain way, he blurted out how...

@WhisperingUnicorn , thank you. I continued to pray and put my trust in God. I never gave up! I needed to learn about this condition and make sure I knew what to do and thar was pray and love. I had to take my hands off and ask God to help him. Don't give up! The best thing that we can do is...

Finally after almost 4 weeks of not really responding to my text and us not seeing each other or talking, today my vet sent me text letting me know he missed me, and we actually engaged in back and forth "normal " text. I have learned a lot about isolating and it's hard to handle. For those that...

Welcome my darling to the roller coaster ride of your life. I'm sorry that you're going through this. You are not alone. I would encourage you to read more posts on this site. That was the advice thar I was given when I first came on the site. I've learned so much and I'm sure you will too. To...

@WhisperingUnicorn this is only for you and your husband to understand. You owe no one an explanation. I'm sorry about what you're going through. At least you both are committed to each other. My vet has not made peace with the fact that he has issues PTSD. He's ashamed and won't share with...

Thank you @WhisperingUnicorn! It's challeging. We've know each other for over 15 years but started dating 3.5 years ago. It was great at first. He was very open at first but when he retired about 2 years ago, I noticed changes. He just struggled and now he buries himself in work. He's not a...

I can relate. As soon as I brought to my vets attention that I needed his support, he bailed, isolated. He said that he can't deal with my being so emotional right now. That's the thing, PTSD can make an otherwise "normal "conversation not so normal. They are already dealing with so much that...

Knowing I trust God in all things certainly gives a peace thar only he can give. At first when this isolation thing happened, I was devistated, I am human. However, each time I'd reach out to my vet to let him know that I'm praying, he'd say THANK YOU! I know what I prayed for my life and for...

When I first posted on this site just a week or so ago I was just a wreck. My vet was isolating (still is) and I thought it was me and I didn't understand at all. Because I pray constantly and am a very spiritual woman, I belive God lead me here. I needed to be heard, needed someone to...

@ConcreteRose darling I'm so sorry. It hurts. I'm 4 weeks in this isolation stuff . I will tell you I have received an ocassional response to text that I sent, where he'd say that he loves me too or that he misses me. After 3 years of a committed, loving relationship here we are. Damn....! Get...

When they are ready, they will come clean and slowly but surely communicate. It's just hard because I believe they know they have changed and they want parts of their old self back but it's gone. It's a battle for all of us. Prayer, patience, and love (including love yourself) will guarantee a...

As of recently, since finding this site, I've learned so much. I think they have internal battles. I think they yearn to be the people they once we're but they have changed. When we come at them with our issues thinking they are the same people from the past, and expecting them to react...