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I didn't think it was possible to live in the same house and isolate yourself from somebody.

Eddie Hoffman, US Marine Corps, 2001 - 2010, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

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- I didn't think it was
possible to live in

the same house

and isolate yourself
from somebody,

but you know, I would
isolate from her.

I would go to work, I
would come home.

She would do her thing,
I would do my thing.

We really, for a period
there, between like

getting married

and then getting out of
the Marine Corps

and then startin' school,
it was about a two

year period

where it was like we
were roommates.

She lived her life and she
saw it as like she couldn't

do anything for me, other
than be there for me

if I need support, but she
had heard all the excuses

and everything.

And she kinda went about
her life while I was trying

to figure mine out.

It was hard for her and I
think we still work

on that now

and we still deal with
some things form all that,

but it's definitely gotten
better at this point.

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