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5 Things Guaranteed to Happen During Deployment

The Deployment Curse. We've all heard about it. Many of us have experienced it. And most of us have even… Read More

8 Things Every Military Spouse You Meet Will Know

Whether you’re PCSing from one coast to the other, or one country to another, there are some things you can… Read More

I’m a Foreign Military Spouse

On the face of things, my husband and I are a perfectly ordinary couple. To look at a photo of… Read More

5 Questions that Make Military Spouses Cringe

By Erin Whitehead It's not because non-military-affiliated folks don't care, or that they are being insensitive... It's just that they… Read More

4 Retail Therapy Options at EVERY Duty Station

Funny story: I live in the desert. We weren't *supposed* to be here. When my husband got selected for school… Read More

The Year I Watched Gilmore Girls and Learned Just To Be ME

While talking with a young friend recently, she lamented how little she'd accomplished during the year her husband was deployed.… Read More

20 Tips – How to be a Good Tenant

From vabeachlawgroup.com "Combo spoiler alert and disclaimer: a Virginia landlord-tenant lawyer is writing this. I know that my profession gives me… Read More

Documenting Deployment: History in the Making

Human nature is quite perplexing. The old saying, “you never recognize a good thing until it’s gone,” seems to be… Read More

Post-Traumatic Stress: When It Starts To Hurt Your Family

Last year, our family had the most magical Christmas: the blankets of fresh snow, bright lights and merry songs filling… Read More

Coping With Death: Just Another Day in America

There has been so much death lately. There is war and so many of the people we know and love are… Read More