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Thanks for the reference to the article.  I had always thought dissociative amnesia referred to periods of time in your childhood but apparently not.  Ya know, after 35 years in alcohol recovery and ACOA support and doing a ton of work on my childhood emotional, physical and sexual abuse, I thought at age 69 I had a pretty good handle on this - but the stuff just keeps on coming.  My wife says I have been doing this on and off for the length of our 31 year marriage, although in recent years it has been decreasing to once or twice a year.

Anybody experience this as an adult - conversations I have had with my spouse I have absolutely no memory of wherein I have threatened to leave her or some other stressful subject only to return hours later and act as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.  Or coerced her to have sex with me only to wake up the next day with no memory of my behaviour when confronted.  Almost as if I wasn't there for these events and seems to only have occurred with her and not other people I interact with.http://outofthefog.net/C-PTSD/forum/Smileys/classic/huh.gif