The story of injured veterans and their partners who have won the battle for love
Over 600,000 men and women who have served our country since 9/11 are living with post-traumatic stress and/or traumatic brain injury. Thousands of others have sustained catastrophic physical disabilities.
All of them still deserve love.
People who return from deployment with a serious mental or physical disability experience more marital stress and divorce than their non-disabled peers.
Furthermore, failed intimate relationships contribute significantly to suicide, intimate partner violence, child abuse, substance abuse, and homelessness.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
Love After War:
- Shows real life examples of disabled veterans reclaiming healthy, fulfilling relationships despite their injuries.
- Provides a voice bringing a vital issue into the national conversation.
- Serves as an educational tool for the medical providers whom our veterans rely on for their care.
- Will be the nucleus of a community and a portal to resources for those in need of help.
Meet the Filmmaker
Dr. Mitchell Tepper, Executive Director, Director, Producer, and Writer, is a sexologist who has been living a full life with spinal cord injury for nearly 40 years. He has long been personally and professionally dedicated to ending the silence around sexuality and disabilities. Dr. Tepper has been working with wounded veterans since speaking at the Road to Recovery Conference for wounded veterans in 2006. Through spearheading the Wounded Troops and Partners: Supporting Intimate Relationships Conference in Washington DC in 2008, he was successful in getting the issue of sexual health and intimacy for wounded warriors on the national radar. He assisted the Bob Woodruff Foundation in organizing their High Impact Collaboration Conference, From Injury to Intimacy, in 2014. He has been instrumental in the implementation of couple's retreats within the VA system and in training members of the Sexual Health and Intimacy Workgroup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Tepper has published peer reviewed articles in medical and sexual health journals on comprehensive sexual health care for catastrophically injured warriors.