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She's my wife. She loves me, and I love her.

Harold Bud Smith, US Air Force 1959 - 1962, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

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You lay down your head to sleep

and your mind just does what it wants to do.

It always goes to a bad place, for me and some

of the other guys I know with PTSD, so I didn't sleep.

For the longest time, I'd see these bruises

on my wife for 10, 15 years.

I said, "What are you doing to yourself?"

She'd say to me, "I bump into things.

I bruise easy."

Well, I learned later in life I was doing that to her in sleep.

I'd be thrashing around and falling out of bed.

That was really sad that my wife would never tell me that.

But then she's my wife, she loves me and I love her.

But it wasn't right to put her through that.

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