In a Relationship With Someone Who Has PTSD? Here’s What to Know
Being the significant other to someone who deals with PTSD can be difficult to work with and maneuver around. Supporting your loved one can feel like a mystery at first.
Being the significant other to someone who deals with PTSD can be difficult to work with and maneuver around. Supporting your loved one can feel like a mystery at first.
Relationships are tricky. For example, you may deal with issues like anger along the way. Perhaps one or both of you do not feel comfortable opening up.
Maintaining a positive, supportive relationship with one’s partner in the face of life stress is one of the biggest challenges many couples face. Not uncommonly, instead of pulling together to face life’s difficulties, partners become disengaged or even hostile.
We need emotional connection like we need oxygen. As the Dalai Lama says, “People can live without religion or meditation, but they cannot live without being emotional connected.”
In a marriage or intimate relationship, our partner or spouse is like a mirror for us, reflecting back to us our best and our worst selves, hopefully in a way that we can receive it.