There is that, and also it cannot be tied to the veteran seeking support. If she had wanted to seek out support and he hadn't, she wouldn't have been allowed. I asked if other women in the study could take part. They said the husband had to have been diagnosed, had to have been seeking support. They needed a referral from his psychologist in order for her to gain support through the military trauma treatment centre. This was very frustrating because these women could have really used that peer support, a place to debrief and have a barometer of whether they were being unreasonable with their expectations--which we all can be--or whether it was really the husband's behaviour that was unreasonable. And if it is the husband's behaviour, how do they deal with that, how do they work with that as family units rather than being isolated?
On April 20th, 2010. See this statement in context.