Relationship Creating a new routine

[Jrabbit]

For those suffering - you set and adhere to a very routine schedule; work a lot, exhaust yourself through psychical activity and hobbies, etc. You keep yourself as busy as possible. And try to avoid unknowns and triggers. All with the goal of keeping your PTSD at bay. However, when you enter into a committed relationship that means deviating from the set boundaries that keep you functioning. How have you done that while allowing yourself to continue to function? How have you navigated allowing your significant other "in" and create a new routine so that special person included?

 

[EveHarrington]

...slowly.

If things change too fast, my system freaks out. Hell, even at a snails pace my system is still freaking out!

The right person will understand that things need to progress at your pace, and no faster, or else everything will go kerflooey.