Complex PTSD is associated with prolonged or repeated trauma and includes the core symptoms of PTSD, along with significant and persistent difficulties with emotional regulation, relationships, and your sense of yourself. Childhood trauma, chronic emotional abuse, domestic violence, coercive relationships, and repeated relationship trauma can contribute to complex trauma. But perfectionism, people-pleasing, anxiety, or difficulty resting alone do not indicate C-PTSD. More hel

Perimenopause can change your sleep, mood, anxiety, desire, patience, and capacity for stress, and those changes often show up in your marriage. Talk when you are both relatively calm. Explain what feels different for you and be specific about what you need, whether that is more help, more space, more affection, or simply being listened to. And remember: not everything is hormones, but hormones are not irrelevant either. Perimenopause often interacts with stress, resentment,

Perimenopause doesn't usually break a marriage on its own. But it definitely turns up the volume on problems that were already there and takes away the patience you used to have for dealing with them quietly. The hormone part is real, but it's rarely the whole story. This post explains what is actually happening and what helps. Michaela Kozlik, LCPC — Licensed therapist in Illinois specializing in trauma, anxiety, burnout, somatic therapy, and nervous system regulation for wo