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We needed to give him space.

Karen Sullivan (wife of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about how PTSD affected her family.

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Our kids, right now, are 14 and 12,

but from the time the kids were very young,

I would say from the time they were toddlers,

we talked about that Dad had been in the war and that,

although he didn't get shot -- like most,

that's what kids think of in the war -- it really

wounded his heart and his soul, and there were times when

he was really sad and times where he'd get really angry,

and when he was like that, it was like having a sickness.

So we just had to understand that we needed to give him space,

they know that he just likes to go out and drive sometimes,

but that it's just something that he has to live with.

And we always talk about all the people that go to war

don't come back the same, and their hearts are hurt even if

they don't get shot and they don't have a physical injury.

And the kids know, they pick up on cues.

If they can see he's getting irritated they usually

just kind of back away and just do their own thing.

Don works very hard not to take things out directly on us,

but sometimes you can just see around him

that he's just getting upset.

We have a joke about how Don calls Verizon and yells at them,

and we don't like to be in the house because it's always

a fight, and poor Verizon hates to get a phone call

because Don's mad about something.

But he makes sure that he doesn't take it out on us.

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