How to Get Close to Someone After PTSD from Past Relationships

it took me years. lots of long talks with myself, since i felt ashamed of even thinking of sharing what i went through to friends. i didnt expect or think that i was able to love someone again, it really just happened, but i was extremely hesitant. i almost broke it off just due to that past anxiety & ptsd, but i just let them know i needed more patience and love and care than other people, that it may be draining and not worth it (my negative thinking as always lol.. ) it was months of talking and gaining trust as well, and i hadnt even told them what happened until years later. they were the first person i ever told what happened. but they were so incredibly loving, understanding, and more than i ever could ask for. i was (and am) very lucky, i wish you luck too. ptsd related relationship anxiety is so, so incredibly difficult to get over to love others and yourself again. i am still healing, i hope you are too.

Therapy, as terrible as it is when it comes to PTSD there's triggers and anxieties without proper guidance it could lead you to self sabotage and furthering the trauma. I wish you all the best I know you can get through this

I had the some trouble, I communicated with the person I was trying to get with (and did) that I would need time to adjust to loving another person again. Just so they know it’s going to require plenty of patience for me to trust and love someone all over again. That really helped because he gave me plenty of support in areas I needed it. Communication can be so difficult but it’s so worth it.