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It is very hard to have a marriage with someone who is isolating themselves.

Lee Norris, Husband of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

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It is very hard to have a marriage

when someone's isolating themselves.

You feel like you want to help them,

but they don't want the help, and it's frustrating.

And I mean, even things such as you cook dinner

and then they don't feel like eating, they don't want to eat.

You can't control that, you did that for them,

and you know they need it for their own health,

but yet they won't take it.

It's kind of, the help is like that, just on, and on, and on.

You can try to give it to them, but you can't make them

take it, and that's a very difficult situation.

And that's what it was like there for a while was, you kind of

felt, I felt alone, and I'm sure she felt alone as well,

even though we were trying to be together.

It was tough, it was just, I've never been through

anything like that in my life.

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