he was depressed after his 2013 tour in afghanistan. erin was someone he could talk to. i confided in her, i was feeling suicidal. and you know she s like, you can t be doing that stuff. you know, it s kind of like she was someone to talk to about stuff that i do want to talk about with my wife. he said erin confided in him as well. a terrible secret that she suffered physical abuse at the hands of her husband jon. she said her husband was beating her, and choking her, and she was scared for her life. she d say that he would choke her whenever like he would get mad. the way chris told it, erin s story of jon s abuse, is what brought them together. i just like being in a state i was i was like okay, i can fix this. and then you know, broken pieces to fix each other. so we just kind of started developing a bond. chris said that bonding soon turned to love. when you told her that you loved her, did she tell you that she loved you? she did. okay. remember, police