Sort of. Kind of a longer story. But, After the bigger traumas in his last relationship he met with a man and he met him privately to discuss his issues. It was not really therapy but he said he helped him. He moved away very soon into their meetings and wasn’t a licensed mental health therapist but he was a retired pastor I think. They met online. I’ve made suggestions that he could benefit from therapy but he is a bit resistant. He hates when I use the word “trauma victim” because he disagrees with the term philosophically. So now I never say it. He also has said in arguments that he thinks I’m trying to tell him what to do just because therapy works for me. I offered to pay for therapy for him if he just showed up and he has said he’d consider it. But it’s still a touchy issue. He really gets offended at the notion that he has any issues as a result of abuse.

I truly believe he will eventually be open to it once I’m in a better place with my mental health and we’re doing better. Right now I’m just trying really hard not to trigger him at all.