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Loving Someone with Complex PTSD

The Couple's Healing Roadmap-Joint Exercises, Conversations, and Rituals to Rebuild Your Relationship Together

You have read the books about Complex PTSD. You have attended the therapy sessions. You understand the diagnosis. But every resource you have found was written for one person to read alone. Not one of them asked both of you to sit down at the same table and do the work together. This is that book.

CPTSD Workbook Designed for Both Partners to Use Together

Loving Someone with Complex PTSD: The Couple's Healing Roadmap is a structured, evidence-based joint workbook built for the couple, not the individual. Every exercise includes dual writing spaces for both partners. Every chapter moves through a guided process that treats both the trauma survivor and the supporting partner as full participants with equal standing. No one is the patient. No one is the caretaker. Both of you are rebuilding this relationship together.

Structured Exercises That Create Real Conversations

Seventeen chapters across four progressive sections give you a clear path from establishing safety all the way through long-term maintenance. You will build a Couple's Working Agreement with shared pause words and safety signals. You will map both nervous systems side by side and identify the co-dysregulation loops that have been driving your worst conflicts. You will complete an honest ten-domain relationship inventory independently and then compare scores to find the gaps you did not know existed. You will create a Trust Ledger, a Joint Touch Menu, a Disclosure Agreement, and a signed Relationship Constitution that defines the values and commitments of your partnership in writing.

Five Therapeutic Frameworks Adapted for Couples

The exercises draw from Emotionally Focused Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Gottman Method research, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. Clinical research supports every tool, and plain language makes every concept accessible. No clinical background is required.

Built for the Long Term

This workbook does not end when you finish reading. A Quarterly Relationship Review structure, a Long-Term Maintenance Plan, and a chapter-by-chapter return guide ensure that the tools you build remain active for years. The final exercise asks both of you to write a joint letter to your future selves, anchoring everything you have learned to the relationship you are choosing to build.

Includes 17 chapters, 85+ joint exercises, a Graduated Intimacy Ladder, a Relationship Constitution template, a four-week ritual tracking log, and over 50 referenced sources. Book 3 in the Loving Someone with Complex PTSD series.