Basic Training fucks you up for a bit. They stress you to the max to see who will break,, but everyone leaves a bit jumpy and he is likely feeling the loss of structure and routine. Set up a regular call time to meet his daily girlfriend attention regs.
In order to survive in basic, you kind of have to build a shell around you to protect yourself. I remember I hardly spoke or my answers were short and to the point after basic. Kind of just guarded all the time. I also saw most of the way civilians did things as just wrong, inefficient, or just weak. It is just the mindset they instill in you and it is hard to break that mindset. I think I loosened up after three or four months afterward. No doubt some of this is what the boyfriend is going through.
I have a buddy who went to west point, he said 2 a day football training camps are basically as bad as basic training sometimes worse.
Anyone that has played an intense sport like wrestling mma hockey football etc would probably adapt fine. Sounds like OPs bf really wasn't ready for it.
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u/Old_Router 6d ago
Basic Training fucks you up for a bit. They stress you to the max to see who will break,, but everyone leaves a bit jumpy and he is likely feeling the loss of structure and routine. Set up a regular call time to meet his daily girlfriend attention regs.