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How to connect with a partner who emotionally withdrew after deployment

My husband came back from his third deployment and he is not angry or broken like everyone warned me about but he is just completely absent and I do not know which is worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes the most profound wounds manifest not as explosive pain but as protective numbness that walls off intimacy entirely.

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