First I'll address the study I did as a thesis for my master's degree in family studies and gerontology. It's a rigorous master's degree, an applied master's degree. I used the qualitative framework. I interviewed eight families, eight female partners of military veterans who had experienced operational stress injuries or were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress. There had to have been a period of time elapsed between when they had left the military and when I interviewed them. I was not ethically allowed to interview any family that was in crisis, although I would argue they were still in crisis even though they weren't diagnostically still in crisis.
On April 20th, 2010. See this statement in context.