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Military Spouses Share Tips for a Successful Homecoming

One of the most anxiety-ridden times for a military family is right before homecoming. There is often a high level of uncertainty about how the service member responded to the difficulties of deployment. We asked readers about the stress of homecoming and collected some great ideas for how to ease it and make sure things [...]

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5 Tips for Fighting Deployment Insomnia

Imagine taking on all the responsibilities of a military spouse while struggling to get even a few hours of rest a night. Unfortunately, the additional stress makes insomnia a common problem among military spouses during deployment. Because the sleeplessness experienced by military spouses during deployment can be caused by a number of different things, there [...]

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4 Ways to Overcome an Inactive or Nonexistent FRG

A structured and supportive family readiness group (FRG) can make it easier for military spouses to cope with the challenges they face. Unfortunately, not all spouses have the good fortune. FRGs can be inactive, nonexistent or poorly organized. Military Spouse Central‘s Adrienne May has found ways to deal with ineffective and inactive FRG groups and find [...]

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The Military Spouse Lost in a Massacre

There are certain things that are impossible prepare for, losing a spouse being chief among them. Military spouses often are forced to talk about the possibility, discuss options and get finances in order ahead of time. They have thought about the very real possibility that their spouse would be killed, captured, disabled or severely injured [...]

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Military Myth Busting: 7 Common Spouse and Family Stereotypes

I decided to bust some of the more common military myths. While I think people are generally supportive of military families, the disconnect between civilian and military families is growing. For example, I was talking with a friend the other day about the chore of filing annual income taxes when she blurted out: ”Your husband doesn’t pay [...]

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Military Spouse Residency Relief Act: 3 Significant Benefits

The Military Spouse Residency Relief Act was created because of the difficulties military families faced when moving to a new state. Since moving is a given with the military lifestyle the legislation makes an effort to ease the burden of changing state residencies every two to three years. For years military spouses were left struggling [...]

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Signs of and Solutions to Rankism

Whether it’s primal nature or simply learned behavior, humans tend to create and follow a pecking order. For military members and their families, it’s easy to fall victim to “rankism.” A service member’s rank can dictate much more than responsibilities they have at work; it can affect relationships and expectations among spouses as well. If [...]

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Cope with a Close Call: Tips and Techniques

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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Military Marriage: 7 Resources to Support and Strengthen Your Marriage

Military families don’t always get to rank their priorities. A marriage often endure deployments, PCSs, and TDYs in addition to work, school, children and everyday life. That mix can make a healthy marriage fall pretty far down the list. Sometimes a marriage need a little reinforcement to ride out the inconsistencies of military life. Whether [...]

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

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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