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abandon455

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Hello, I'm new to this forum but have been reading it the past few months. I have been dating someone with PTSD and she has been slowly pulling away. it started with cancelling dates and saying she was sick and then would say i shouldn't be angry about it. last June i caught her in a lie and she hung up on me and started calling me the liar and so on and forth and that's when her agression started. Few weeks passed and things seemed to get normal and she starts calling on her own when she has not in months without me pushing it. we got into a small argument on the way taking her to work and then later that night she texts me and i brought her needing to reciprocate affection and she went off like a bomb and it went from that to a few days later wanting a break for a few weeks. Then at the end of that break i saw her on campus siting at a table with a guy and wanted to say hi since it had been few weeks and she imminently told me to please leave and then told me a second time to go when i left i said that it hurt me and that maybe we needed to go our separate ways. she immediately texting me sorry she will see me soon and then of course didn't two days later she ended our relationship after acting wishy washy but promising it was just a two week break that we would meet the following week.
Then ever since has texted me less and less and won't call and has even taken me off spotify recently . She claims it's because she does not trust me and is not comfortable seeing me or calling and that i need to respect that. she gets angry when i bring up maybe we should cut communication all together and when i brought up boundaries of if she can't cuss and not be snide and can't pick up the phone and call after two months i need to leave and says i'm talking to her like a child and talking like i'm better then her and blows up. she claims she needs time and space and she misses me and wants to see me but she's scared to now for some reason and that she can't get bad memories out of her head and now someday's that are rare she will say i love you most other days she's angry and other days she's in a i can't trust you but when i offer to talk or build trust she says she can't call or see me so that won't work. But her action's are triggering my fear of abandonment and when i bring up these trigger's she goes so what if i don't want to see you or spend my free time with you or took you off spotify it's just spotify do you hear yourself? Other times she randomly goes on from anger to how i'm not nice to her and why can't i be and why can't i talk to her normally and respect she can't see me or call until she can come back but does int know when . I'm not sure if it's the PTSD or her own behavior.
 
Wow, that’s a lot of drama!

My guess is that it’s untreated ptsd?

Would you tolerate this behavior if she didn’t have ptsd? (Symptom tolerance aside.)

Why do you need her to agree to cut communication?

I honestly think she’s treating you poorly.

I’ll just touch on the Spotify thing.

SHE is the one who made it a big deal. It was such an intrusion into her life that she deleted you. When you dare question it, you get blamed/shamed for even asking about it... See how she did that blame shift? She cannot take responsibility for something as simple as deleting you off an app!

I’m all for working with sufferers, but only if they’re willing to work with you.

(I have ptsd myself.)
 
i would not tolerate this if she did not have ptsd. she blamed it on hurting to much to see me on there when it's a music streaming app. but her taking me off it i saw it as another connection cut and triggering me. when i told her it does she just goes it's just spotify and i said then just re add me and she goes i don't know or maybe. i figured it was possibly ptsd triggering and disappearing because i read a lot about them blocking on social media and vanishing and the coming back later by the time the other gave up. and yes it's untreated and never been to threapy and i've offered to pay for it and go with her and she ignores the offer and tries last spring and she went i didn't make you pay for a therapist you choose to when she didn't go. i also sent her a link to how arguing destroys relationships and her reply was do you have any links to " how to not treat your girlfriend like a child" when i brought up my boundaries and that the arguing needed to end.
 
Is this a relationship you really want to pursue? If so, can you explain why?

I’m not doubting that she has ptsd. Rather, I’m wondering why you are in a way excusing her behavior because she has ptsd. You deserve to be treated better!

I see it as a red flag when she balks at boundary setting and pretends to be the victim.
 
i think i tolerate it because she used to be a very nice caring and was the grounder between us. she would tell me i need to communicate and not isolate and talk about my feelings in a positive manner and she was extremely open and cared about anything that bugged me and used to always be there for me and enjoyed knowing what's going on with me . now she acts like this / super cold and has wiped me from her life within two months and i feel like i hold onto who she used to be.
 
We were together feb 2017- june 2018. The break happened right after the stupid arguement which was june, she broke it off the last day of the break she asked for.
 
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