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I was entering a new relationship with Robin,
and one of the things that I discovered about myself
was that she was the first person that I had tried,
that I was trying to make a deep and meaningful
relationship with since Iraq, a personal relationship.
I realized all of my friendships after Iraq were just
face-value, you know, they weren't people that
I kept in my life, they were people I could push away easily
if I got too stressed out by them.
And here came Robin, and for some reason I decided that
I wanted to try to cultivate something.
And when the patterns of distress and -- I think I had
an incident of punching a door during an argument --
when they started to emerge again, I realized that
I needed something more than just the coping skills.
If she hadn't gone to those appointments with me,
like, that was one of the things that was offered,
and she took the time to come up and watched
the same videos I watched on my first appointment
so that she knew what I would be going through.
But she made the effort to do that,
I can't just credit the therapy alone.
But she really took the time out to be supportive
and go through this journey with me.
Even though it was really hard for me, I can only imagine
how hard it was for her, especially since I was,
in the first, like, two or three weeks, constantly re-living
the trauma over, and over, and over, and over again.
She had to watch me hurt and heal, but I think that helped her,
seeing that it did help me heal.