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How to Cope When Deployment Means Missing Family Milestones

The Internet has become an incredibly important tool for the military community to document and share their experiences. Personal blogs and social media have given everyone an opportunity to share their story. National Guard wife Ali Gibbs uses her blog, Better Together, as a springboard for her thoughts and feelings. And that insight can amount [...]

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How Do Military Families Adjust to Living Overseas?

Military families and spouses often have to move across state lines with little notice, and often end up living overseas. The service member in the family can be called to move bases at any given time. The result is that moving frequently can take its toll on the family, and although its members might grow [...]

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Creative Ways to Say ‘I Love You’ from the Homefront

Saying “I love you” isn’t very difficult, but it can prove to be an issue when your spouse is deployed and communication isn’t easy. If you can’t talk on the phone every day, you might find it hard to communicate your love on a regular basis. So the next best thing is to get creative [...]

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Pack It Up: How to Move By Yourself While Your Spouse is Deployed

Moving houses can be intimidating in the first place, but having to move by yourself can be downright frightening. If you’re a military spouse, that might be the reality at some point in your life when your spouse is deployed. “I am an active duty military spouse with two children and six ‘on my own’ [...]

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See You Soon: How Deployment Changes Your Habits

Deployment is a large adjustment for a couple. The military service member might usually have had certain responsibilities at home that the spouse must now undertake. Because deployment is a change, some spouses might decide to keep the household as similar as possible to normal, but others might choose to do things differently. Whether or [...]

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Beyond Loving Your Spouse: 25 Ways to Be a Best Friend

Marriage, if it is going to last, is about more than just being in love. True love means that you are not just in love, but you are also friends. Military couples have many added obstacles in marriage. Heck, sometimes it feels like the military is the third person, and three is a crowd! Strong [...]

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Military Spouse Interview: Christine Lay

When Christine Lay’s husband came home, she described the feeling as “amazing,” if she could even put her excitement into words. You might know Christine as the mother whose son, Jamey, received a service dog from Veterans United Foundation. But there’s a lot more to this military spouse. Her husband, Andrew Lay, returned home in [...]

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Military Spouse Interview: Being A ‘Veteran Military Wife’

You might have read Life Lessons of a Military Wife blog before, but you probably aren’t too familiar with the blogger and military spouse behind the military and life advice. The blog’s author, who chooses to be known as Veteran Military Wife and currently lives in Germany, was once in the military herself, so she [...]

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Join Our Military Spouse Bloggers Roundtable!

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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Military Homecoming Fashion: What to Wear

Suddenly, I transform into a woman I hardly know who frets and throws tantrums over dresses that “are all bunchy in all the wrong places.” I fall into the traps of I-have-nothing-to-wear and I-look-awful-in-everything-I-put-on. It is important to remember that your welcome will be a great one, no matter what you wear. Your service member [...]

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Adrienne May

Adrienne May is a military spouse. Her husband is an Army soldier and now is serving in the Army National Guard. Together they have three children from preschool to pre-teen. Adrienne is actively involved in family readiness and disaster preparedness on the state level and advocating for military family programs, homecoming transition programs and adequate veterans benefits.


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