When My Boyfriend & I first got together there was alot of intimate moment We enjoyed together. After awhile I did not want to be Intimate with Him anymore. But afterwhile we started fussing about stupid things so I broke it off after 2 yrs. & 5 Months. Intimacy is not the Cure All. Getting to know what the other person is going through & Being a Positive Person for them might Help.

Man, I wish I had you guy's problem. I just ugh...idk.
See I had a boyfriend that I thought was a pretty serious thing. I thought we loved each other. Well, in the time that we were dating, something happened that triggered what my therapist called "avalanche flashbacks" they made me feel horrible. I was so depressed all the time. So I decided that I would do anything to make myself feel better. At first it was just small things like drinking soda (even though i had given them up years ago) but it gradually escaladed to bigger things...including making a huge mistake with my boyfriend who supposedly "loved me" but I realize now, that he was really just taking advantage of the situation. He saw my weakness, and he played on it.
But now my problem is still every time I have a flashback instead of finding something healthy to do to get through it I always go and find something unhealthy to do just so I'll make myself feel better, even if it's only for a few minutes.
I wish with everything in me I could go and take it all back because now I feel like a piece of trash, that no decent guy is ever going to want me because of how screwed up my life is...
and on top of it, the whole experience has only made my PTSD worse becasue it created a bunch of new problems. Trust me, intimacy is NOT the answer for coping with this.

Unless the partner is willing to learn all they can about PTSD and also have some support of their own, I don't think it could work. People who don't have it, understand it, or have experience with it, will only do further harm, imho, and in my experience.

I agree with you, Paige, when you say "Unless the partner is willing to learn all they can about PTSD and also have some support of their own." It's not fair, but intimate relationships for those of us with PTSD do come with those two preconditions. And they're rarely met. The most foolish thing I ever did in an intimate relationship, I think, was to be responsible to divulge that I had PTSD (my part) but then try to be their support (their part). So I, the person with the anxiety disorder, end up coping with that and also trying to do the emotional intimate relationship homework for two people. It left me resenting folks who don't have PTSD in the end, but I realize it was my foolish choice to bite off way more than anyone could chew. Again, because Paige is right. Remember the ending of the film The Hurt Locker, where the protagonist with PTSD tries to share with his wife in the kitchen when he gets home from war but she just tells him to cut up some veggies? Been there, like many of us have, I'm sure. Being all alone like that in an intimate relationship is, imho, harder than not being in one at all.