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Hellotree311
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Cptsd and relationship breakdown
Trauma Support / by Hellotree311
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 March 31st, 2022
...See more I am in a relationship with a partner who has CPTSD, and I keep triggering him somehow. He doesn't want to talk about it and if he gets triggered he becomes aggressive in his speech, verbally abuses me, will not let me speak at all to try and calm things down, and has come at me in an aggressive manner. He has never hit me, yet, but I fear as things progress that one day soon he will. Over the past several months things have broken down and I believe that I also suffer from CPTSD as thr more I learn about it, the more it fits with my very traumatic past. Today he broke up with me and it has been a horrible day. He has been triggered all day and has backed me into a corner. When I told him he was scaring me, he said I should be scared and that I terrified him (I'm the least aggressive person ever, I don't even kill mosquitoes). He finally backed off and left the room but I'm scared to be in the house. He usually ignores me for days when he perceives I've triggered him so I think he will stay in the spare room for tge rest of tge evening but I don't know for sure. He is unable to work with his mental health issues so I am financially responsible for everything and don't have the means to leave, or know anyone I could go to. I also don't want to make things worse by leaving because if I do, he feels attacked. I don't know how to de-escalate the situation.
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