I know a lot of women who don't even acknowledge they're veterans because they don't want to have to say that the reason they got out was they were sexually assaulted. They would rather hide their veteran identity and just leave that part of their life in the past.
They don't even want to deal with Veterans Affairs because then they have to open those wounds too. A lot of women can actually hold their stuff together while they're raising their children, if they happen to have children, but as soon as those children are gone and they start to be alone, their issues start popping up because they're not keeping busy with their children. Sometimes they don't realize they're sick until they are 45 or 50. They've been so preoccupied with taking the kids here or taking the kids there and school this and school that. As soon as there is that empty nest syndrome, a whole new can of worms gets opened.