Unbroken,

I'm here on this forum because I suffer from PTSD and I wanted to just offer to you what I know, from my own personal experience, how PTSD can affect communication.

I have, on many occasions, taken what someone has said to mean something else. It's as if the words went into one ear and then recalculated themselves somehow and I processed them in a manner that was never intended. This especially happens when I'm already in a stressful state of mind.

My advice is to talk to her about it again when she is not so emotionally wound up. This allows her to go into the conversation with a more rational state of mind, and more receptive to actually listening to what you intended and not what she heard.

Many times, after I've calmed down, I'm able to hear what was intended on my own instead of what I thought I heard. It's embarrassing but I've learned to be honest about it now and accept that I do this. Once one can accept and be honest about how their mind is processing certain information, then one can start to fix the problem.

Good luck.

Best,
Rachel