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Relationship The Silent Treatment?

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Let her go. Seal up the cracks. Dust yourself off, and remember there is so much more to life than a person who abuses you. And does not return whatever feelings you have. Spit the bait out instead of running with it. Learn to love yourself. Someone who deserves you and whom you deserve will be happy to reel you in and not let go.
 
Go hungry, that's great advice. In a way, I feel like this is a game to her. Not saying it is, but somehow it feels like it. It feels like she's intentionally torturing me. Whether that's true or not, I can't say. I hope it's not. But the way she has gone about this whole thing just has seemed so cruel and that she always has to have the upper hand in everything. When all I respectfully sought out was closure. Legitimate closure. Not to beg or attempt to reconcile. But CLOSURE. And I asked and went about it very fairly.
Hi blue eyes 18,

I have to agree with the people who are telling you to just get out of the relationship. No amount of understanding on your part is going to save this. At some point even someone with PTSD has to accept responsibility for their actions, and it does sound to me that this is just a game to her to see how much you care or how much you're willing to put up with. She came "crawling back" the minute you decided you were done because she is manipulating you.

Don't let the label PTSD drive you to make excuses for her, or for yourself. You do deserve better, and you can't help her or fix her. She has to do that on her own.

Enough is enough. As someone else said, love doesn't conquer all and it takes both people to make a relationship work. That's true of healthy relationships as well.
 
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Everyone's advice has been truly remarkable. Thanks so much. This site is filled with truly amazing people who are so generous and compassionate. I've really needed it. Thank you, genuinely.

It has sank in that I am not a doormat or a punching bag. I have given everything I have to this woman to the point of completely self sacrificing. And I did it willingly. I can't say that it wasn't. I knew it was going to be hard but I loved her enough to try. We both agreed to give each other our best, and I suppose it wasn't enough. I suppose I wasn't enough.

At this point, I'm harboring a lot of anger and resentment. Like I said, not at the ending of the relationship, but at the way she went about it. Who let's someone they claim to care about sit and feel tortured, knowing they feel that way, and just ignore them? I begged for closure. I got silence. I'm just resentful at that. I'm angry.
 
Time will help, but you might want to seek out a therapist for yourself. There is nothing wrong with seeking help out for yourself, if you haven't done so already.

In my own case, forgiveness was key. Not in the "it's all okay I will take you back" way, because forgiveness doesn't mean that. I won't forget what he did, I found out many more nasty things when we split, but for me the conscious act helped me to release the anger that quite honestly he deserved. It just sort of happened, when I thought I could be consumed by anger, or I could continue to build upon the rich life I had established for myself prior to meeting him, and had continued with during our relationship.

You see, the one thing you will read over and over again from supporters and sufferers alike, is that you have to continue to have a life for yourself, take care if yourself, do things for you. If all goes well, you will have interests to talk about. If not, you are not lost. Angry, sad for awhile, but you learn, you mend, and you continue with what you have built for yourself.

Get out with friends, travel by yourself, do things that make you a better person and enrich your life. The anger is normal, the sadness is normal, and you will grieve it in its own time. But it will dissipate. In the meantime do not be afraid to seek out professional help. Remember you have to be worth it to yourself, before you can be worth it to anyone else.

Hang in there.
 
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