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A few years ago I a boyfriend from high school and I gave it a whirl. Turned out he has PTSD and wow what a nightmare that was. Oh I should mention we are no spring chickens. We are both 66 years old. Anyway, he moved in with me and started a small business where he made Elvis costumes and...

I know that I have to stay strong. He just said to me "I don't want to leave...we are a family (he's talking about our dogs) and I love you. I will call the VA right now and get things started" I told him that he has had months to do that and didn't and that I just couldn't say OK. Then I...

I want this new year to be different. I don't want to be walking on eggshells. I don't want to bite my tongue. But here we go again. He is going back to Vegas. I can no longer deal with untreated PTSD. The outbursts of anger need to go away. He has been in correspondence with someone...

My boyfriend (sufferer) is finally making arrangements to move back to Vegas. I know he hasn't wanted to leave but I have been giving him subtle reminders. I think he now realizes that I am serious about him leaving. It doesn't mean I don't care about him. It means I can no longer live with...

I read on here how everyones sufferers isolate. I wish mine would! I wish he would go away. Instead he blows up. I know when it is going to happen because it is always caused by the same triggers. I start getting that walking on eggshells feeling. I don't do well with the blow ups. I...

Today my sufferer had a doctors appointment (not for PTSD) that he did not go to. We were in the car and when we passed the VA I asked if he would be in any trouble for not showing up. He said "am I a child? No I won't be in any trouble". Somehow it led to the one time he did go see a...

I have always been under the impression that someone has to want and get treatment on their own. That it has nothing to do with loving someone, being loved, having love (except for ones self). Today I had someone (not on this site) tell me " he needs to realize how his PTSD effects you in a...

OK - I know alot of you have read my other posts. I'm 64 - my high school boyfriend and I reconnected last year. At first it was wonderful, then out of the blue PTSD rears it's head. Fast forward. We had been living together at my home. In May we split up and he went back to Vegas. After 3...

Some of you have read my other posts so if I'm repeating myself I apologize. My boyfriend is a PTSD sufferer. He will not get treatment for it. How it manifests itself is that he will have outbursts when he gets upset. You never know when. He gets upset over things that don't phase me in...

He is suppose to be leaving Monday morning. Everything is happening to make it hard for him. No money, car issues, no place to go. Everything he tries to do something gets in the way. Yesterday he said he thought it was time to end it all. So today I wake up and I'm feeling really bad. I...

He is leaving on Monday. He is trying to secure an apartment in Vegas. Little (to me - major to him) things keep going wrong. Now he just said he thinks its time to put an end to it all. He said he would not do it here because I just cleaned, but he can do it in his car. One shot to his...

Quick history. My highschool boyfriend (we are now 64) and I moved in together last fall. Within a month I discovered he had terrible "breakdowns" where he would rant and rave. I came from a verbally and emotionally relationship so his breakdowns really affected me. After about 6 months he...

Hi all. I'm back again. I thought today would be a better day but I woke up having anxiety. It didn't help that I adopted a rescue Scottish Terrier last nite that only has one eye and had been neglected for years. I thought maybe it would help to get my mind off my sufferer. Now I'm worried...

I've been on here in the past. In a nutshell my boyfriend and I were living together (we are not young...64). He would have bad outbursts and when I finally could no longer deal with it we parted. He went back to Vegas. I live in Tucson. He was gone about 3 months and kept begging me to...

My boyfriend and I have been living apart. He has wanted terribly to come "home". I told him in order for that to happen he would have to seek treatment at the VA. (He has combat ptsd) He said he would. Then the time came that he was going to come home and he didn't. He made up an excuse...

Looking for someone to talk to in Tucson, Arizona. Anyone out here?

My boyfriend and I had been talking about him coming back to live with me. I had told him that for it to happen he would have to agree to going to the VA. He was all for it. One day. Then not. Then yes. Then he wanted to get married. Then he asked if he just showed up would I let him in...

My PTSD sufferer is living in a different state. We were living together but his what I call breakdowns made me so upset we decided to live apart. He was gung ho to move as fast as he could. Of course when he got to his destination then he was sad. So over the past 2 months he has asked me...

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to think of a few questions that I want to present to my sufferer that would give me a bit more clarity as to whether to hang in there (we are not together now) or simply put a final end to it and walk away. One of the questions I came up with is "Do YOU WANT to get...

First a little background. Divorced last year...alcoholic verbal and emotional abuser. Reconnected with my high school sweetheart. He was my boyfriend all thru high school. When he was 17 he joined the Army and as soon as he turned 18 he was sent to Vietnam. Before he left he told me not to wait...