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I have been to many pre-deployment readiness meetings. After half a dozen of these meetings, there is one piece of advice that is practically burned into my forehead: “You should not bother your spouse with trouble and problems at home.” Military spouses need to be focused on the mission at hand, not worried about finances, [...]
One of my pet peeves is when people ask me if it is hard to love a military guy. Deployments are hard. Moving is hard. Worrying is hard. Other people will say, “I don’t know how you can do it.” But loving someone in the military is easy as pie. Really. Part of loving someone is [...]
Building a strong and healthy marriage is a lot of work, and even the strongest marriages will be tested along the path of life. People who stick out the worst often later say they acquired a new sense of appreciation for their spouse and had a deeper sense of marital satisfaction. Families who stay together [...]
Military spouses endure a lot of challenges living the military lifestyle. Some obvious ones include deployments, PCSs and constantly changing circumstances. Beyond the day-to-day, some spouses have to deal with the additional challenge of assuring their spouse they are invested and willing to hang tough in the face of uncertainty and often trying times. It’s [...]
Having a relationship in the military requires a great commitment to the lifestyle on both sides, but what happens when it’s time to decide whether to extend that commitment? Is it the service member or spouse that has the ultimate decision, or both? So many factors can play into a reenlistment decision including finances, career [...]
Keeping in touch during a deployment can be difficult for military families. Members of the Navy, Marines and some Special Forces units are especially limited in their communication abilities and you may feel like there is no way to contact them in case of emergency. Thankfully, the American Red Cross has a dedicated service to [...]
The old saying “more money, more problems” tends to hold truth, even in holy matrimony. Combining finances after marriage can get tricky. Perhaps it’s the reason you’ll find money to be the second-most likely reason for divorce. Military couples may find it even tougher to stick it out seeing as deployments, trainings and permanent changes [...]
They say distance may make the heart grow fonder, but they fail to mention that distance can let the romance squander just as well. Being romantic can be extremely difficult across thousands of miles, especially for a deployed spouse stuck in the middle of a war. The communication may be minimal and sporadic and the [...]
During deployment it’s important for families to use both old and new methods to maintain connections with military members. To ease the transition, families should have a communication strategy prior to deployment.
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