I never thought being emotional abused could cause P.T.S.D. I was married to an abuser for 8 years. Got married on a Saturday and Monday he went to work and didn't come home. He thought he was going to live the life of a single man again. He had a 3 year old son that I feel in love instantly with and he thought I was going to be his maid, cook and child caregiver while he played around after work. He called me terrible names to lower my self-esteem names like fat, ugly crazy ect. He was in Vietnam war before I met him and sent blown up pics of the V that he killed to his mom and dad. I didn't see the warning signs, I just wanted a baby and be married so I would not be a so-called sinner to my parents. I could not believe how proud he and his parents were of these pics. Than, I heard how he would cut off the V ears after he killed them. A real sicko, I was married to. He woke me up many a night choking me and did not remember. He felt he didn't need any help seeing a shrink. I found out he was also an arsonist burnined down a bar and tried to burn one that I worked at while I was working. He had no consideration that 3 small children were upstairs. One morning after coming home from being out all night, I was upset and he pulled a gun on me. I called the police as now our child was just 1 1/2 years old had nowhere to go. The police didn't do anything because the gun did not touch my head. I put up with this for 8 years. Got married on my birthday and divorced exactly 8 years on my birthday with no regrets. He told me many times how he was going to kill me and bury me in the woods so I wouldn't be found till spring time. I told my family how scared I was and nobody believed me. He was so nice they thought. He has been waiting for 25 years for me to come to my senses and come back to him. Keep waiting huh! The only good came out of it was I got to love a child his son which we still talk and my daughter from my ex. Today, my daughter went to the hospital being pregnant and thought she was losing the baby but just got good news so far so good. She has lost 2 babies already. I thought I was going to be going through another set back. I pray she will carry it to full term.