Spouses and Families Can Get Support/Marriage and Family Help During Deployment and After
Here’s GREAT site to get some help! It’s called Hearts Toward Home. Dr. Cantrell has amazing stuff.
Hearts Toward Home International, is a non-profit charitable organization, that has been structured for the purpose of providing support, counseling, training, educational classes, materials, and re-integration and re-adjustment workshop/forums for military personnel (both active duty and veterans) and their families after war-time service.
The activities of “Hearts Toward Home International” are carried out with special emphasis on addressing issues that prevent present military personnel, as well as all war veterans, from re-entering society and having a quality life. The organizational purpose is to come to the aid of those war-fighters who have been exposed to traumatic experiences and who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after serving in military hazard zones. Additionally, HTH International is equipped to train facilitators and counselors in the skills of re-integrating military personnel with loved ones, and the civilian environs to which they return.
The specific use of “Turning Your Heart Toward Home” workbook course and the self-help book “Down Range: To Iraq and Back” are the primary materials utilized in forwarding this mission.
Bridget C. Cantrell, Ph.D.
President/CEO
I love my marine very much…i got scared. We are very young, and even younger when he decided to join the Marine Corps, but when he left it scared me…and i pulled away. He’s back now, i’m not over it and apparently he is. He will not talk about it…he will not discuss anything at all…he’s just focused on having me out of his life, completely.
Sofia, this is truly tragic and we’re sorry to hear about this. I truly hope you guys are able to reconcile.
My Army husband came back from Afghanistan in 2003. I have tried to cope with his many changes but it has only gotten worse. I have made an appointment with a divorce attorney. I wish I didn’t have to but he refuses counseling and I am tired of being left alone (even when he is home he is not here). I wish I new what else to do but I can’t sit by anymore and watch as our lives turn into nothing. He is cold and angry and has hit me and my daughters. I did support the war at one time but I don’t anymore, it is tearing apart too many families. Afterall, it’s my life to, RIGHT?