View Full Version : PTSD and Pregnancy.


KelsEllie
12-28-2007, 04:37 PM
My fiance got home from his 3rd tour in Iraq on September 18th. Not too shortly after that, we got pregnant. It wasn't planned but we discussed it and became alright, and then happy. Now it's been almost 3 months, and everything has been so weird. I knew when he got home that they had (finally) officially diagnosed him with PTSD. I knew he had it before he deployed this time. But, it's been making our lives hell, now...we had a wedding planned, and EVERYTHING was ready..it was a week before (we were supposed to be married November 27th)..and one night he sat down and wouldn't talk. I got out of him that he wasn't ready to get married..okay, that's fine..and then he said he was no longer re-enlisting, okay..that's fine. So he EAS'd in December and we've been home in Ohio. We've been doing nothing but fighting because he always tells me he's busy and he can't talk and he doesn't have time...and then I'll find out where he really was, or who he was really on the phone with...when he couldn't talk to me. He up and admitted some really hard things online while I was asleep the other night, including that he thinks he's going down and bringing me down with him. He said that he's ruining both of our lives...that he can't figure out why he is so angry all the time, and that he can't help it...and I know that, I do. but what am I supposed to do? I am on bed rest, I have been for 2 weeks and I will be probably for the rest of the pregnancy (Five more months!) I'm already doing all that I can..he's not going to be with me for new years, he'd rather party with his friends..that's fine..I'm doing all that I can to show him I love him and am trying to understand. I didn't even make it off Parris Island for my shortly lived Marine Corps Career..I have no idea how he feels. He won't go see or talk to anybody...but he admits he needs help? What should I do?:oogle

mary79
12-28-2007, 07:19 PM
I hope he gets help. :hugs