Relationship Thank You Supporters

[Kaii]

From reading your posts, it seems like the majority of you here are women supporting men with PTSD. I am the opposite. I am a woman with PTSD with a terrific man that supports me.

I'm sure you ladies don't get to hear it often enough, so I will say it for your men: "Thank you".
Thank you for being there for me even when I don't say how much it means to me. Thank you for listening, even when you don't understand what I'm going through. I know the things I say can be disturbing to you sometimes, thank for hearing them and not judging me. Thank you for respecting me when I am quiet or when I disappear into my hobbies, sports, video games to dull my anxiety. Thank you for including me when I am distant, just because I'm not talking doesn't mean that I would mind listening to you talk. Thank you for making our life as normal as possible, even though it isn't. Thank you for being there, I would be even more lost without you.

After writing this, I think I need to call my husband and thank him. I don't know if I've ever said these things to him, but I mean every single one of them, every single day. I live so much inside my own head now that I guess I've forgotten that it might be important for him to hear how much it means to me. Honestly, if it weren't for my husband or my dog, I probably would of given up and killed myself a long time ago. Medications were useless for me, therapy every two weeks is somewhat helpful but it has been the support from my husband and everything that I get from my German Shepherd that has helped me the most.

I know what it's like to have PTSD and I honestly don't know if I would have it in me to endure a relationship with someone who had it, so Thank you to all the supporters! You guys rock my socks off!

 

[Sianm]

I certainly love this!!!!!!

I'm a women suffering too, with a rock of a husband for support. They are amazing supports, I don't know how he puts up with me! But he does, unconditionally.

Glad your husband is a rock too :-)

 

[ashdawn8287]

Same!! :)

How sweet.

I also have a german shepard!!! she is great!!!

 

[LisawithPTSD]

I'm a female sufferer as well. I have a support team that really helps me and each other. My ex is my biggest supporter and has even given me money when I couldn't work so I could get treatment, not worry about finances, etc. But the dogs are who I live for. I have three and need each one.

 

[who am i kim]

:hug::)Me too I have an awesome husband, we been married 32 years and he has supported me the whole way through, all the ups and downs, he has taken the lot. If not for him I too possibly would not be here. Every now and then I remember to tell him that I love him, as I really do. I just get lost in dissociation (fog) most days.

 

[felicia]

This brought tears to my eyes. :'-) Thank you.

 

[Sweetpea76]

As a supporter, these words are like gold to us. Thank you.

 

[stephanie44]

Thank you for your kind words. I will say, however, that I am a woman survivor who has CPTSD and I am not in a relationship. I do not "have a man", whatever that means, although I have a very supportive family, amazing friends, and an incredible therapist and doctor. I think support comes from many different places, which is great. I am also thankful for the spiritual support my church has offered me. Good stuff.