The CPTSD Relationship Operating Manual

Complex trauma does not stay with one person. It shapes how a couple argues, withdraws, reconnects, and repairs. This workbook gives two partners a shared, practical way to meet those moments together. The CPTSD Relationship Operating Manual is a fillable guide you complete side by side. Chapter by chapter, you write your own agreements: how to signal overwhelm, how to pause a hard conversation and return to it, how to support each other through a trigger, and how to repair after conflict. Every tool is mutual, optional, and yours to change. A dedicated safety chapter marks the line between relationship skills and situations that call for outside help. Written for couples where one or both partners carry complex trauma, and for the clinicians who support them, this is a structured place to begin, in your own words, on pages you build together.