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I didn't ask for the names...you stating that it is for ptsd is all and that is helpful
that shows that he may be difficult to get along with and of course taking the meds would be helpful
I suffered from a little ptsd myself after a very abusive first marriage
I remember sitting beside someone in a car and all of a sudden it was though I was somewhere else and my ex was going to hit me...it just lasted a few seconds, but it was very real
this is a very hard thing to deal with as I am sure you know
I was thinking your husband may have lost a limb or something disfiguring as you stated you didn 't want to even touch him
that shows that he may be difficult to get along with and of course taking the meds would be helpful
I suffered from a little ptsd myself after a very abusive first marriage
I remember sitting beside someone in a car and all of a sudden it was though I was somewhere else and my ex was going to hit me...it just lasted a few seconds, but it was very real
this is a very hard thing to deal with as I am sure you know
I was thinking your husband may have lost a limb or something disfiguring as you stated you didn 't want to even touch him
You are very young. At your age I was not very mature, and I would have buckled under the load.
Counselling is not a one off, tried it, failed. You need to involve people who know you, who have good intentions.
There are veteran groups who support ptsd cases but it is a long road.
Have you got a close friend or someone you connect with? You need somehow to find yourself. Some have found help from 60+ aged couples who know the struggles people of your age often go through and can help just giving you the space.
Unfortunately this is 100% not the place to find help. You need face time with people who can listen and be there for you. If you change things too quickly it is just going to get worse unless that is the only option.
Unfortunately ptsd can be a life long problem, and change how you react and work. Without being there no one is in a position to say anything, I am very sorry.
Counselling is not a one off, tried it, failed. You need to involve people who know you, who have good intentions.
There are veteran groups who support ptsd cases but it is a long road.
Have you got a close friend or someone you connect with? You need somehow to find yourself. Some have found help from 60+ aged couples who know the struggles people of your age often go through and can help just giving you the space.
Unfortunately this is 100% not the place to find help. You need face time with people who can listen and be there for you. If you change things too quickly it is just going to get worse unless that is the only option.
Unfortunately ptsd can be a life long problem, and change how you react and work. Without being there no one is in a position to say anything, I am very sorry.
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Here's the Biblical advice on marriage. It will take effort to understand what it means, and please check out the footnotes to do that, but that's it -- one reason for divorce -- adultery. The spouse's adultery. Since he forgave you, then that's off the table.
No where did God say life was to be easy and the goal is your happiness. You complain because he's feeling unloved? Yeah, well, that is reasonable, since you don't love him. You've got one option, take this to the Lord and work with him to restore your love for your husband. It's doable. Remember what you love about him, instead of constantly running through what you don't love about him. It takes two to argue. If you stop, he runs out of ammunition to fight you. When you love him, he's got nothing to argue about.
It is hard to live with a spouse with disabilities. It is possible to love the spouse enough to want to. That is what God's will is and what he gives us to do. I pray in letting your husband know and truly showing him that you love him, he will go back on his meds and fight the good fight against PTSD with the added strength of a wife who loves him.
No where did God say life was to be easy and the goal is your happiness. You complain because he's feeling unloved? Yeah, well, that is reasonable, since you don't love him. You've got one option, take this to the Lord and work with him to restore your love for your husband. It's doable. Remember what you love about him, instead of constantly running through what you don't love about him. It takes two to argue. If you stop, he runs out of ammunition to fight you. When you love him, he's got nothing to argue about.
It is hard to live with a spouse with disabilities. It is possible to love the spouse enough to want to. That is what God's will is and what he gives us to do. I pray in letting your husband know and truly showing him that you love him, he will go back on his meds and fight the good fight against PTSD with the added strength of a wife who loves him.
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Often forgiving is an ongoing fight within ourselves. Many people I've forgiven over and over again -- not because they keep doing the same thing over and over again, but because I forgive, un-forgive, and then have to forgive again. If the person stops doing that which was so hard to forgive in the first place, there's less of a tendency to take back my forgiveness. Trust is definitely an issue afterward. And given JoJo has left him mentally, even if she hasn't had sex with anyone else, that one is as much desertion as adultery. It's really hard to forgive someone for deserting you, when they keep deserting you.
If your husband has forgiven you then you ought be more affectionate and loving with him as you were once before, even moreso because he did not divorce you for this thing. The affection and the forgiveness be better medicine than whatever various powders and liquids called medicines be. Do not lose hope, try being more affectionate as you say it's lack seems part of the problem. I hope the best for you and your husband.
Whole of the chapter is good for the consideration, but for sake of somewhat brevity on the forum, the chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians is good for the consideration.
1 Corinthians 7:1-11
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.[SUP]
2 [/SUP]Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
[SUP]11 [/SUP]But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Whole of the chapter is good for the consideration, but for sake of somewhat brevity on the forum, the chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians is good for the consideration.
1 Corinthians 7:1-11
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.[SUP]
2 [/SUP]Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
[SUP]11 [/SUP]But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
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At the foot of the cross we find ourselves, hurt, alone, needing comfort and reassurance. We look up and see the Lord of All hanging on a cross because He wanted us to know, we are never alone, we can always find comfort and His love is eternal.
He puts love in our hearts, guides us in the ways of the Holy Spirit. And in this place we can learn how to care, how to comfort, how to love again.
If you are giving simple life advice to someone it does not have to have pray etc. I have no reference point that either of these people have a clue about Jesus. Or if someone comes to ask you for a loaf of bread you will give them a few words and send them away?
He puts love in our hearts, guides us in the ways of the Holy Spirit. And in this place we can learn how to care, how to comfort, how to love again.
If you are giving simple life advice to someone it does not have to have pray etc. I have no reference point that either of these people have a clue about Jesus. Or if someone comes to ask you for a loaf of bread you will give them a few words and send them away?