You bottle up your emotions and never talk about the war, not even to your wife. Being easily alarmed by any loud noise, you lash out at her and the children. As age takes its toll, you turn more bitter and mean. You finally realize your mistakes when your wife asks for a divorce. You beg her and the kids not to leave, but they do anyway. As you sit alone at the kitchen table for supper, you contemplate how life would have been better if you would have just received help.

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