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    General I Realize I Have My Issues Too.

    I came to this site trying to help my boyfriend who has combat PTSD. Through this process, I realize I have my issues too. I have a past that I have run from, and been running from for a long time. I never dealt with it, never told anyone the things that happened and I know now that it is the...
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    Run Away For: All Of My Problems (unhealthy); Safety (healthy)

    I'm so sorry you are feeling trapped with no way out. I know that does not feel good. I am keeping you in my thoughts
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    Relationship When Is It Just Ptsd And When Is An Abusive Relationship With Someone With Ptsd?

    Ok..so we skyped tonight., He isn;t comeing back here for six weeks. His new job is taking him to Utah for six weeks straight from TN. So we had our weekend talk tonight. He said He would have to have his parents get his stuff and his dog. I asked that he leave his stuff and dog here the six...
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    Relationship When Is It Just Ptsd And When Is An Abusive Relationship With Someone With Ptsd?

    Im ok with my dad still having him work for him. I didn't stop loving him. I don't hate him. I just can't push him into getting help. He got divorced because once things go good, he distances himself. His ex wife and him had a baby, three months later he bolted for his parents. He thinks he...
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    Relationship When Is It Just Ptsd And When Is An Abusive Relationship With Someone With Ptsd?

    My dad separates business from personal. My bf/exbf needs the money, and my dad knows thats. After finding out his dad beat him and his siblings and thats why they are all messed up, I'd prefer he stay as far away from me as possible.
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    General From My Dad

    He is. I never thought he would know how I was feeling. We have never been very close. But today and tonight..he knows my heart. he knows how I am feeling. And every day I will strive to bring myself a new day, a new hope, a new joy.
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    General From My Dad

    My dad sent me this..I thought I would share: "You deserve what you earn. No one owes us anything. We are never above pain and anguish. But we are the only one who can bring ourselves a bright new day, the hope that only the future can promise"- my dad
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    Right now, I only want us to talk and be friends.
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    Relationship What We Choose Not To See

    This was very helpful. I'm in that quiet place trying to figure out if I keep fighting for him or I start fighting for myself.
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    What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

    Today I am feeling that he is an idiot since even his ex wife wants him to figure things out because she wants him to be with me. If your ex wife approves..thats pretty good.
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    Relationship When Is It Just Ptsd And When Is An Abusive Relationship With Someone With Ptsd?

    Im going to see him regardless. He manages properties for my dad and has to come here to get the key, we had agreed to talk then. I am not a controlling person. Im extremely passive. But yes, I think that since it was his idea to live together and his decision to leave, he should be the adult...
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    My dad doesnt think this is as hopeless as I do. Which is odd because my dad has never once felt that way about any of my relationships or my ssisters' relationships. My dad is pretty good at reading people and situations logically.
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    Relationship When Is It Just Ptsd And When Is An Abusive Relationship With Someone With Ptsd?

    This just gets worse. My dad said to not have his parents come get his things, that no matter what, HE needs to do it because HE made the decision to move in and he has to be the grown up and move out if he is wanting that. I told him mom that, she got mad at me and hung up His parents enable...
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    The last time, he had left because we had been arguing a lot. That time I really thought I was to blame. He said he just wanted me to not get so upset with him all the time, to just come and talk to him. He said that he felt "worthless coming home to you" because he didn't know if I would be...
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    Yes. Every time he does this disappearing act, he does this.
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    He keeps texting about mundane things..like how he had chinese for dinner. I just said I was busy and would text him later
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    I have come to the decision that it doesnt matter. Im done
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    General The Angry Thread

    I am angry because he makes me feel like I am a bad person when I have never done anything but be kind, patient and supportive of him. I am angry that he drug my kids and his into the relationship and turned out that he couldn't handle it. How is that fair to them? I am angry that he says...
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    I wish he had cheated. I wish he had lied and said he had cheated. I told him that last night on the phone, that I wish he had done it so I could move on
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    I guess from what I saw, she just got divorced..and frankly he is too nice..and she asked him if he was ready to marry me yet Its ok that he wasn't. Although he said he was to me. He does some stupid things. He is nice to everyone, he tries to help people. I get talking to people, I talk to a...
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    Relationship Letting Go And No Contact

    I know he is afraid of committment. He has only ever committed to three people in his life and he's 34, almost 35. One was a woman he left because he had trouble handling her special needs child (he was 19), his ex wife who left him due to the PTSD and me.
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    They went to school together as kids, she used to date him about 20 years ago. According to his best friend, she's referred to as his "stalker".
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    I dont know if its actually protective or a way to ease back into something with me. A way to be like see I have a use, I can be beneficial to you
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    I Need Some Input From Sufferers

    He has PTSD from his childhood and serving in Iraq. This was just the latest incident of him flipping out and bailing on me, The protectie thing was over me, he was angry that she was trying to upset me. He didn't cheat, the message she sent with their conversation only stated where he said he...
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    What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

    I feel sad I feel disappointed (although I lied and told him I was not) I feel anxious I feel lost, as in I am unaware of the day, the time, what I am supposed to be doing
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