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Oh Lord, guys. I need some help. Haven’t posted in ages so I’ll give you some background. My boyfriend is active special forces with C-PTSD. He just started going to the therapist again ( he had stopped but things were getting so bad he knew he needed to recommit to going). He’s hard to be with...

Hi everyone, I have a question for long term supporters. After years of balking and managing his PTSD himself, my sweets has finally entered therapy. I know that the start of therapy is rough...but how is life with your sufferer after he or she has been in therapy for a while? I'm so used to...

Hi everyone! I haven't posted in well over a year because things have been going so well. But that has changed. He was deployed to do some secret thing-I don't know what. Two one week deployments with only a week or so in between. When he came back he said he was still reeling from what he saw...

Hi guys-as the title says: How do you comminicate effectively with your partner when you get angry? Yesterday was my birthday and my sufferer did something thoughtless guaranteed to really piss me off. When I became angry, I became his stressor. He got upset and isolated the rest of the day...

Hi everyone! Posting here because I'm frustrated and at my wits end. Those of you who have read my posts know I've been with my significant other for seven years. He has PTSD. He's special forces stationed in the Middle East. Our relationship was a roller coaster for years but I finally set...

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I haven't been on here recently because there has been no real problems. Life has been good! My sweetheart has been doing so well! Life will never be like it was before the PTSD but we've been doing the best we can. We work together, and things are...

I'm having a bad moment. I'm frustrated and angry. He told me today, I'm a stressor, not a stress reliever. This was after I wrote him an email detailing how much I love him, how much I want to be with him,and how proud of him I am of him. I feel kind of foolish now. He says I'm abrasive in how...

Hi everyone! My question is for a sufferer or anyone who has a long term relationship with their sufferer. I have been with my beloved for 6 years, 4 of which he has had combat PTSD. I am the closest thing to family he has, and I absolutely trigger him the most often, and the most quickly. I...

Hi everyone! Today is a bad day for my sufferer, I triggered him accidentally by having a tone of voice he didn't like. One sentence, then he said I was arrogant then went to bed. Today he's isolating and won't speak and it's his vacation which was supposed to equal lots of time together. I...

Hi Nicolette, Amethyst and all the wonderful people who've commented on my posts in the past. So, you all know that I have been with a man in Bahrain with untreated PTSD for 5 years ( he has been a sufferer for 3). Our relationship has limped along, he has been manipulative, verbally and...

Hi guys, I need some advice and you all are so good sometimes at seeing what I don't see because I'm in the thick of it. There will be a bit of backstory, I apologize. I'm angry at my beloved, so so angry. Last month, he had an extremely stressful situation arise at work, and he began to...

****HUGS****** Awful day today. He got angry with me last week because of my tone of voice. One wrong word, and I'm deleted from messenger, his email and blocked from texting. He says I've ruined his vacation and he's finished with me. Does anyone else just get SO sick sometimes of how little...

Hey guys! I have a quick question for you all. I'm a bit torn. These forums are so wonderful, chock full of great information and caring people. There are some days when you guys are my lifeline-it's so nice to vent and talk with people who genuinely understand my situation and can offer...

Hi everyone, haven't posted in a while but having a real down type of day. PTSD is such a monster!! My beloved avoided me all weekend, he's under major stress and he just didn't spend any time. His M.O. when he avoids is to leave me a quick text, to know he's okay then not respond back to any of...

I am reasonably attractive, am intelligent. I have a doctorate-I'm an educated professional woman. I *know* if I left my beloved, I could find someone really great...the problem is, I love *him*. And I want only him. I'm so freakin' tired though guys. So, so tired. He lied to me yesterday, and...

Sephira is mad, and frustrated and bleh..! I just need to vent guys. My boyfriend and I had been doing so well! So, so well! I set boundaries, he listened.. it was great. He had to move today and won't hve an internet connection for 5 weeks.This totally stresses me because until he comes home...

Well, my tumultuous relationship with my boyfriend is over. After oversleeping and arriving 9 hours late to the "date" we set up, he didn't like my tone when I said "Let's just do this a different day, you sound tired. This set him off, he started yelling and calling me names, then impassively...

I really need to vent yet again. Tried dealing with this myself tonight, but I've been just sitting in my room alternately seething and crying for hours. I had a fight with my sister today, we screamed at each other and I came home from work feeling like crap. He's my best friend, and the...

I'm sorry to be posting so much everyone, but I have so many questions and my T isn't around till Monday. Long story short.. another shit day. He accused me of wearing him out, manipulating him and blamed me for his not eating, his stomachache, his crap night then hung up. I feel truly...

Hi everyone, My boyfriend lives in Bahrain and had an extremely stressful day there, and was exhausted. He was taking to me on the car ride home and he said to me "I need to be honest. My feelings have changed. I feel numbness, indifference towards you. I'm willing to work on it, but I don't...

I know I'm new here but I feel like if I don't get this out, I'm going to scream at my sufferer, which is so terrible to say but he's driving me crazy at the moment. Since he's still "in the field' daily (he hasn't left his combat job) he is always under so much stress. This morning he called...

Hi everyone! I need to vent a little bit I think. Right now, my boyfriend decided to take some space. After reading here and in other PTSD literature, I know intellectually he needs it. I know his stress cup is full, and he needs time for it to go down and since I'm his biggest stressor, I get...

Hello everyone! I'm completely new, so I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong place. My boyfriend of three years has PTSD. When I met him, he was an editor of a publishing house in London but because of financial problems became a private contractor in a Private Military Corporation. He must...