I know of a few DID friends that are married and or in life long partnerships.
As one put it to me one time -" its heaven, hell and everything in between just like any other marriage the only difference is the two of you can be having a great time and suddenly instead of an adult enjoying time with an adult its a totally mystified adult watching an adult woman act out scenes of her past sexual experiences. Definately puts a damper on things when a husband heres his wife say "I love you daddy" or "I love you David"because she is acting out the memory of having to say that to her abusers.
Another told me that her significant other was her rock. If it wasn't for him she would not have had the strength to pull herself together. He married her knowing she had memory pieces that she would get triggered into and he was wonderful through it all. It wasn't easy but with both of them working for what was for the best not for one or the other but best for the both of them they made it through and landed on their feet.
Personally my ex'es couldnt handle the rapid switching that I go through. Heck my own therapist half the time is not sure what memory pieces she is talking to me in. She knows when and she calls it "you just went somewhere" but as for which one her quess is as good as mine.
me being in an intimate realtionship - well I know I will never get married and on the rare occasions when there is a significant other I just go with the flow and enjoy what time together we have and not worry about something like marrage.
Life is too short to worry about things that are not right here right now. If I worry about something like a possible long range marrage well time flys and then its gone. and then one day you are sitting wondering "if only I had done this" and "why didn't I do that". I think Its better just to live here and now taking things one step at a time and one day at a time and enjoy what time I do have. Maybe some day there will be that one that can put up with a partner who out of the blue is acting out pieces of memories that even she has no memory of. But Im not going to plot plan and worry about it. it happens it happens, it doesn't it doesn't, either way Im a winner because I am not letting the here and now pass on by without taking time to enjoy what it has to offer.
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