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Thanks to both of you. it will take a lot of courage to do this. It will definitely be like something i've never done before. But my wife is worth it. Thanks again!

I'm glad you have people around you who care for you. I encourage you to keep looking for opportunities to share your secret. I know how scary this is. Just know that you have nothing to be ashamed of. You are a survivor and you have reason to be proud. I'm nothing but proud of my wife, she is...

Looks like I posted twice, the first one was before I logged in. It seemed like it didn't go through so I wrote again. Opps. :) <mod edit to say: fixed that for you>

You are definitely not alone. I have two thoughts on the subject: On Getting Support: I'd like to ask what support system(s) do you currently have in place? Friends, therapist, family, etc. Reaching out to people who can empathize and understand where you are coming from will be a big part of...

Hello, My wife suffers PTSD. We have been married for about 4 months. I have to say that we are doing very well. She is doing quite well in therapy and I've also become aware of my own needs to grow through my own therapy. Things that have lead to disaster in the past are less burdensome now...

Solara, I appreciate your thoughts. At this point, she does not seem open to that idea. In her mind I breached trust. I am the enemy. She was screaming at me. She had a look in her eye as if she truly hated me. Now she says she doesn't care what I do. She calmed down before we went to bed...

My wife is too important for me to let her become an ex. For the first time in my life I'm able to share things. I've never felt that safe before. She's been able to point out dysfunctions that I always new where there, but never felt good enough about myself to stand up and say so. I felt...

I met my wife two years ago. We work at the same company. I told my stepmom that I plan on taking her out for a date. My step mom called me to days later and told me that she "heard" that her, my now wife, tried to kill her self at some point. I knew that my step mom was telling gossip. I also...

I'm sitting here awake worried about my wife. She is trying to recover from childhood trauma through therapy. The problem is that I fear that my family is not creating a safe environment for her to get better. I blame myself. I have not created good boundaries with my family. My father has a...

Thank you Everyone! Muse, thanks for taking the time to write as much as you did. We actually had a therapy session right after I posted and it we were able to communicate everything. I have taken things personally in the past. However, I have been accepting that it does get worse before it...

My wife has been suffering a lot lately. Mood swings. Flashbacks. Hurt feelings when someone says the wrong thing. She's seen about four therapists in the last few months trying to find the right one. She believes that she has finally found one that deals with PTSD. He wrote a book and she has...

I've read earlier threads about MDMA. I've also read research on the pros and cons. I'm familiar with reasons that people are for it, against it, and hoping for more research. Some of the threads seem old so I'm starting a new thread on this subject. I'm not interested in buying ecstasy off the...

I believe she truly feels hopeless. After trying very hard to allow her to feel heard, I think that there is much more to it. She's feeling trapped in her past in which she was truly not heard. And if she stays trapped in that world it will not matter what I do. Therefore, I think we need to...

I'll keep this in mind as I certainly don't want to be in the wrong group. I'll make sure I know what I, and we, are getting into before hand.

Her reaction was along the lines of the fact that she felt like it was too much ontop of getting the house together and going to her own therapy. I think deep down she was afraid that I was being too controlling, another common element to her past. After a little more explaining I was about to...

One more thing I'd like to add. I know that there are men out there who go after fragile women in hope to control them. That is not me. I'm drawn to my wife not only because she is a lovely and caring woman....but also because I understand that feeling of despair myself as I spent a lot of my...

I love my wife very much. We have been married for a month, dating two years before that. Overall we’ve had a wonderful relationship. It has been without a doubt the most enjoyable time in my life. In our dating period we learned how to discuss things very productively. One thing that I’ve...

I would agree that therapy forces one to confront the events in question. When it's bottled down, everything seems normal. But in bottling down, events can re-emerge in more unhealthy ways. I would say that it's important to continue therapy. It may not seem like it but you are confronting...