Life With A Veteran: After Combat Can Anyone Return To Peaceful Married Life?

After the welcome home parades, the parties and the speeches, the service men and women who experienced combat duty must return to the peace and calm of civilian life. But horrible memories don't do away, neither does programming to react to the sound of sudden noises or the sight of people clothed in the attire of certain ethnic groups. The scars of warfare are more than just physical. Are spouses of veterans really prepared for the psychological damage to their loved one, now a trained killer of human beings? After living among blood, suffering and death, how does one turn off the killer instinct and turn on the intimate lover instinct? Can those who choose military careers maintain stable marriages? Or is the job too violent to deprogram oneself after combat duty has ended