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The Pro’s & Con’s of Moving Home During a Deployment

The issue of whether to move back in with family during deployment is one of the most debated issues among the younger members of the military community. Between a shaky economy and limited opportunities for civilians around military bases, many military spouses and significant others decide to move back in with their families during a [...]

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Finding Your Identity As a Stay At Home Spouse

Many families decide that having a spouse at home to take care of children and run the household is the best option based on the costs of childcare and the feasibility of finding a high paying job when big moves are all too likely. Even though there are numerous benefits to having a stay at [...]

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Putting Up With Others While Your Spouse is Away

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

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

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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Ways to Meet New People in a New Environment

Military life can be a chaotic, lonely adventure at times. That means having a supportive community can be crucial for military spouses. They’ll need to rely on friends and family more than ever, but what happens when the military life moves you miles apart from your main sources of comfort? Trying to tough it out alone is nearly [...]

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Defend Yourself Against Deployment Depression

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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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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