Hope, please remember though, that not everything in our lives is evolved by PTSD, and often relationship issues are just normal relationship issues, with or without PTSD, and especially when children are involved, the raising of them, etc. The differences between males and females is the next significant contributor to relationship issues. Often we think, or believe, that our PTSD is affecting every aspect of our relationship, where in fact, our PTSD only affects a relationship if it is our anxiety, depression or other symptom reacting, and not just us as a partner, female or male thought.

Your motherly instincts for example, and the decisions often based from those instincts, have nothing to do with PTSD most of the time. When PTSD is at play, is when the children want to do something and a symptom won't allow you, or the event is something surrounding how you got PTSD, then that is a PTSD decision, or highly based one anyway. Those are the type of things we must relearn, but general relationship matters, 80% have nothing to do with PTSD, instead they are male - female indifferences and genetic characteristic traits. To prove this, go visit a friend who has children, without PTSD, and watch how both respond if the child does something, or the male might be sitting in the lounge with a beer watching sport, whilst the female is trying to motivate him to do something, go somewhere or take the children out. If a child bothers him, watch his response to hers. We often bring PTSD too much into our relationships, when in fact it generally plays a very small role. Yes, our attitudes can affect a relationship because of PTSD, but that is then an area that must be worked upon to improve, so the PTSD element is removed.