How do couples navigate relational ambiguity when trauma alters veterans' emotional timing, pacing, and responsiveness?
Relationship challenges are common among Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress...
Partners' experience during wartime urgency vs. after returning home
Partners can have different experiences when their soldier returns home from war. This is because there are no specific...
The impact that war has on personal relationships cannot be underestimated. War brings people together in ways that no other circumstance can, often forcing them to rely on each other for survival....
How do soldiers interpret emotional needs that arise only after returning to calmer environments?
The answer is complicated. Soldiers can return home from combat zones feeling changed physically...
Romance is often associated with love, passion, and intimacy; however, for those who serve in the military, it can take on a different meaning altogether. Military service involves being away from...
The concept of romantic satisfaction is often discussed in terms of interpersonal compatibility and emotional fulfillment between partners.
Recent research has suggested that experiences of...
Soldiers have to balance their desire for emotional and physical closeness with personal experiences of trauma and operational stress that may limit their ability to form deep connections. Some...
Intimate communication is an essential aspect of human relationships that can help to buffer the effects of post-traumatic hypervigilance. Hypervigilance refers to a state of heightened awareness and...
The article will focus on how hormonal changes during military deployment can alter expectations about romantic and sexual relationships. Endocrine shifts are known to be one of the most challenging...
Combat stress can have a devastating impact on military personnel's ability to maintain meaningful relationships both during their service and after they return home from deployment.
Despite this...