Relationships

Ah, Valentine’s. You’d be hard pressed to walk into any retail outlet in the February time frame without being bombarded...

Picture taken by Peter Kapasakis, James River Photography Call me cheesy, but I love this time of year. (and we...

Dear Mr. Murphy, I regret to inform you that this partnership can no longer continue. Over the past three years...

Or maybe my title should have been, “Parenting: You’re doing it all wrong,” but if you’ve read this far you...

We always have the best of intentions before our spouse leaves for deployment, don’t we? We will make everything perfect...

By military standards, I didn’t get married at an exceptionally young age. I was 23 and my husband was 25...

When I got married to a young Marine at 22, we were both as “boot” as boot gets. Now, almost...

Supporting both the academic and emotional side is the next best thing to having parental super powers. It’s the first...

From the Huffingtonpost.com No, not that "Force"... the "Force of the Future", a hot topic recently within DoD circles, as...

We are High School sweethearts who have tried for a family but to no avail. Now we are going to...

Deployments, TDYs, the push and pull of “hello” and “see you later:” this is the military life to which we...

As a military spouse one the most common questions I am asked is, “Isn’t it hard making new friends all...

Deployments come and go, no two are the same and no three milspouses learn the same lessons during them. Over...

1. It makes you stronger “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, “the strongest things in life are forged through...

Dear Civilian Friend, You are more important to me than you could ever know. It feels no longer than the...

Has the pendulum swung too far from face-to-face communication among military spouses? The youngest spouses have been raised on social...

When you are a part of the military community you learn quickly to adapt to change. Maybe you got orders...

There are so many wonderful reasons to love being a military spouse, not least of which are the exotic duty...