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Thanks. He has been really good about not demanding things of me ... he just counts on me to do the things I voluntarily promise, and to accept what he says when he tells me he can't do something. The issue wasn't my failing to do a thing for him ... it was my pushing on through his "no" when he...

Hello, everyone! So it seems I am not hearing my sufferer housemate's nos as final. For example, if we are having an issue and I suggest a solution, or I need to make good for something I did wrong and I suggest something, I hear his, "That doesn't work for me because x" as "X is a problem that...

Thank you all so much. Last night I got out of the apartment and stayed elsewhere, and he texted me profuse apologies for "being triggered at you." He said he'd been an awful friend and that was on him. I accepted his apology and he mine, and we sent each other cute internet gifs. :p Thing is, I...

Thank you so much, Abstract, for some clarity. I've been really feeling like dirt over this. His attitude is that he's explained fully enough and I've known him long enough, I should have known that conversation would be a problem. He compared it to pulling aside an Iraq veteran with PTSD to...

I read this to him and he said, "I was feeling safe enough until you told me that I wasn't." That's the issue here. Also, we moved in together because I am someone he felt particularly safe around, and we wanted to have a mutually supportive house. There was planning that went into this, and he...

Hi all! I am Ellen and I moved in a couple months ago with my friend Connor, who has severe PTSD. He is between two major anniversaries, and is having a really rough time, is very hypervigilant and isn't sleeping more than a couple hours a night. He told me that not having a door on his room...