If you’re anything like me, your life completely changes when your husband is deployed. You follow your own routines, and you develop your own coping mechanisms to try to keep your love alive while simultaneously trying to keep your heart from breaking. We have to do whatever we can to make our lives a little bit easier […] Read more…
Top 10 Ways to Stay Connected With Your Spouse During Deployments
A couple weeks ago I went to the library and checked out a handful of books written for and/or by military spouses. I didn’t get a chance to read all of the books before their due date, but there was one book in my pile that I read in one sitting. “I’m Already Home…Again” […] Read more…
Wife on the Roller Coaster Meets Her War, Her Voice!
I know I’ve already self-promoted myself once this week, but I’m so excited that my post The Lasts was featured on Her War, Her Voice today! Her War, Her Voice is an amazing website written by 2 mil spouses who have been through it all. If you take a look around their site, you’ll find their unique […] Read more…
Another PBS Post
My 3rd post for PBS’s POV blog Regarding War is up! It’s called “Does Absence Make the Heart Grow Fonder Or Fungus?” Please go visit me over there today! Comments are turned off here in the hopes that you’ll comment at PBS. Thanks! Read more…
Breaking Up With My Surrogate Spouse
My latest Blue Star Families post… My husband is home. The deployment is over, and our family is settling in quite nicely through the post-deployment stage of getting to know each other again. However, there’s another person who is greatly affected by the end of the deployment as well: my surrogate spouse. When my husband […] Read more…
Situational Awareness
I wouldn’t call myself a paranoid person. But I definitely have a reasonable level of situational awareness. As a woman who frequently lives alone, I feel I have to be aware of my surroundings to protect my safety and security. I double check the locks in my house before I go to bed. I carry […] Read more…
