Sorry if this is an over-discussed topic, I'm a bit new. When Phil first "introduced" khet as a girl he met and then eventually called her his soulmaid, he said that at the time they met he was going through a difficult time, and khet was also going through a difficult time herself.
We know Phil's difficulty stemmed from breaking up with leanna and turning to alcohol, but did we ever find out what khet's difficult time was about?
It's a story as old as time, two people who are incapable of the emotional depth to feel love for another human being were having their relationship with their SO's breakdown and were stressed about the idea of losing the person they had used as a security blanket for years to hide from their broken lives.
Then, as their SO's grew increasingly fed-up with their physical and emotional non-participation in the relationship, their stars aligned over a Tweet about an OBS crash as the beady-eyed Pigroach realized he may have found yet another fangirl. She then publicly Tweeted a very tasteful Black-and-white photo with her tits hanging out of a button-up shirt and, after immediately deciding they were dating, halted all postings to her Twitter, YouTube, and Twitch.
Over the coming months they would support each other through long-distance correspondence during their travails. Phil having to learn how to do laundry, and purchase and prepare his big boi Hungry Man dinners; Katherine being a cheating whore who got found out by her SO whom she was still using for money and then getting kicked out with nothing but a lone gaming PC and a box of clothes to her name.
Though she was 'forced' to move-in early due to the unforseen circumstances of trying to re-sign the lease on her short-term rental a month before it was up and finding the place was not being offered due to scheduled construction she and Phil found they enjoyed their 'debt riddled home-owner and grifter' living arrangement so much they recently joined in holy roomatrimony.
As to your specific question, Katherine's 'difficult time' was a 'snippet of truth told to us by Phil himself. Phil has never told us specifically what that referred to, but if I recall he specifically said that they had 'both been going through a
similar difficult time that we helped each other through' and from this I would infer that Katherine was having to microwave her own Hungry Man dinners as well seeing as SubaruMan claimed recently he 'lol, I always did all the cooking'. . .or maybe both their long-term relationships were falling apart after a marriage proposal or something. There are things that have been gathered about her timeline, but with his pathologic lying, revisionist history, and general babbling bullshitery it's anyone's best guess as to what Phil was referring to there. Occasionally Phil baits that someday, when they feel comfortable, they will reveal the story of how they met because 'it was very special' and I think he's right, it was re
tarded.