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Counting Down the Days Until Your Servicemember Comes Home

By Adrienne May | Published July 13, 2012

Facing a deployment can be overwhelming. Just seeing the dates on the calendar, thinking about the months that you will be on your own can really make you feel defeated before you are even a few days into the deployment. The time seems to stretch on and on and there doesn’t seem to be a [...]

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Join Our Military Spouse Bloggers Roundtable!

By Adrienne May | Published June 13, 2012

I’m very excited to introduce a new way to connect with Veterans United Network and Military Spouse Central. We will be hosting regular weekly Hangouts, or group video chats, on the Veterans United Home Loans Google+ page! You will have an opportunity to participate in live video chats, ask questions and chat with us and [...]

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Cope with a Close Call: Tips and Techniques

By Amanda Bruns | Published February 29, 2012

Military spouses learn to cope with the additional challenges and responsibilities they face with their spouse’s dangerous work, whether deployed or at home.  Spouses at home may be in a constant state of worry, but it can come as a shock when a close call takes away any sense of invincibility. Spouses can no longer [...]

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10 Ways to Your Keep Mind Busy During a Spouse’s Deployment

By Amanda Bruns | Published February 22, 2012

Military spouses know how to hold down the fort while their spouse is deployed, but there are times when he or she just needs a momentary distraction from it all. Spouses may go to work and keep busy, but many can’t escape even fleeting feelings of loneliness or worry. If that’s the case, here are [...]

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Putting Up With Others While Your Spouse is Away

By Amanda Bruns | Published October 25, 2011

A deployment may top the list of challenges a military spouse must face. The distance, the safety risk, the sporadic, often delayed communication, and everything else that comes with an assignment isn’t easily understood by most people. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop people from claiming they understand as they try to counsel you. When Military Spouse [...]

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Battle on the Home Front: Military Spouses and PTSD

By Adrienne May | Published October 4, 2011

A military member’s homecoming is almost always an exciting, jubilant event that restores stability and peace of mind. But spouses with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can return home a changed person. About one in five military members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan report PTSD symptoms, but only half typically seek treatment, according to a 2008 study by [...]

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Coping with Pregnancy During Deployment

By Adrienne May | Published August 19, 2011

Military deployments are challenging for everyone involved. But for military spouses, who are often charged with the responsibility of holding down the home front, deployments can be full of loneliness, anxiety and uncertainty. In some circumstances, deployment can cause service members to miss out on important events: anniversaries, birthdays and even the birth of a [...]

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Defend Yourself Against Deployment Depression

By Adrienne May | Published June 21, 2011

When your spouse is in the midst of a deployment, the loneliness you feel can seem unbearable, making you question how you can make it through the next month, week, day, even hour. The stress can make it a struggle to get out of bed some days. You’re not alone. Spouses everywhere are fighting deployment [...]

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