How To Confide In A Partner About Ptsd

[anthony]

but as soon as I get in a romantic relationship and I share the story of my trauma, I turn back into the fifteen-year-old I was when I was first abused--I'm meek, afraid, desperate for approval, and I lose sight of my sense of self and system of beliefs.

Do you think that maybe it is the difference between opening yourself up to be truly vulnerable versus plutonic relationships had with friends, socialites, etc?

Vulnerability is the very think in a romantic relationship that doesn't typically exist in most other relationships. We are more vulnerable to a partner, emotionally, than even family, in the context of relationships.