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Laney1224
I’ve been reading a lot on PTSD because this is really my first encounter with it.
I’ve been seeing a man, recently retired from the military. Not only does he have PTSD from his service but I suspect also from past relationships.
The whole time we have spent together was unlike any I have spent with anyone, we have a special connection and it is a beautiful feeling… until it wasn’t. After expressing his feelings for me with those three little words he literally turned on a dime and said he needed to regroup.
I gave him his space and the next week he reached out, we went to lunch where he told me he had been paralyzed with fear after he said that and our weekend away. I thought after we talked and spent the next weekend together that we were going to be ok..FaceTime, texts, all week from him until he went quiet again. When I messaged him and asked why he was so quiet again he said he was so sorry but he wasn’t ready or capable of a relationship “right now”.
We are two weeks now of silence. The longest two weeks of my life. I have never been more confused in my life but then I started reading about how this is common with people who are dealing with PTSD and that would make sense how you could go from I love you to I can’t at the drop of a hat.
I love this man, he was completely unexpected in my life and I wouldn’t change a moment but how do you deal with this? Other than give him the time he needs?
I’ve been seeing a man, recently retired from the military. Not only does he have PTSD from his service but I suspect also from past relationships.
The whole time we have spent together was unlike any I have spent with anyone, we have a special connection and it is a beautiful feeling… until it wasn’t. After expressing his feelings for me with those three little words he literally turned on a dime and said he needed to regroup.
I gave him his space and the next week he reached out, we went to lunch where he told me he had been paralyzed with fear after he said that and our weekend away. I thought after we talked and spent the next weekend together that we were going to be ok..FaceTime, texts, all week from him until he went quiet again. When I messaged him and asked why he was so quiet again he said he was so sorry but he wasn’t ready or capable of a relationship “right now”.
We are two weeks now of silence. The longest two weeks of my life. I have never been more confused in my life but then I started reading about how this is common with people who are dealing with PTSD and that would make sense how you could go from I love you to I can’t at the drop of a hat.
I love this man, he was completely unexpected in my life and I wouldn’t change a moment but how do you deal with this? Other than give him the time he needs?
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