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Dissociative Identity Disorder and Relationships
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Relationships are hard for everyone to navigate with emotional attachment and fear of abandonment by your newfound love. But what if you are living with dissociative identity disorder (DID)? How do you navigate the drama of being in a relationship with a partner healing from trauma?
This article will tackle this subject and hopefully leave you feeling better able to reach out to and maintain a healthy if sometime rocky, relationship.
How Does DID Affect the Communication in a Relationship
Relationships are meant to be, at least in a monogamous one, two-way communication between two partners. In most relationships, sex is a given as both enjoy physical pleasure, bringing closeness to the couple.
However, dissociative identity disorder changes all that. Communication between the pair is often strained as the person with DID tends to hide their pain and problems leaving their partner in the dark.
If the open and honest communication between the pair falters, the couple is left feeling that there is more to what is happening and raising suspicion.
A relationship cannot stand if there is no communication. Most people who have DID want to hide their diagnosis and suffer…
