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He snapped at [our daughter].

Jessenia Reeves, Wife of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about how PTSD affected her family.

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She got anxious once, and he snapped at her.

And I mean, she was excited about,

I guess a TV or something

because we just put one in her room,

and she was asking for something,

and he was going to go do something for her,

but she changed her mind to asking for something else.

And she was pushing her arm against his stomach,

kind of like, tugging his shirt or hand out, like, begging.

And he snapped at her.

And that's when I went, "Whoa."

Grabbed her, pulled her behind me, and stood in front of her.

And I said, "Calm down."

And I had to explain to her, "You can't do that."

"What did I do wrong?"

She's questioning herself, what did she do wrong?

And that's a hard part too because, as a mom,

how do I explain it?

"It wasn't your fault, something happened."

"What happened?"

And I can't really tell her the whole truth.

But it's just, "You can't do that anymore."

That's all I had at the time.

That's all I could tell her.

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