Emotional numbing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are negatively associated withrelationship satisfaction in combat veterans and their romantic partners.
Becoming more prevalent, a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis can result in relationship distress among treatment-seeking Service members upon arrival home.
Little research to date has examined secondary traumatic stress symptoms in spouses of military veterans.
People who experience trauma can transmit traumatic stress symptoms to those close to them which is referred to as secondary traumatic stress.
Deployment-based separations, during which military spouses' communication is limited and their uncertainty heightened, present numerous challenges to spouses' enactment of relational maintenance.
The author of this article conducted interviews with civilian wives of military Service members in order to illustrate the ways in which partners maintain their relationships during deployment and what factors affect relationship maintenance.
In recent decades, research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has yielded important information on prevalence rates, risk factors, and outcomes about female IPV victims; however, there remains a limited amount of research about male victims of IPV, especially male victims in the military.
Military spouses must contend with unique issues such as a mobile lifestyle, rules and regulations of military life, and frequent family separations including peacekeeping and combat deployments. These issues may have an adverse effect on the health of military spouses.