The Only Deployment Playlist You’ll Ever Need
Article Originally Published at JoMyGosh.com When John was deployed, I listened to a lot of music… and a lot of ...
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My husband has been in the Navy since December, 2013. Somehow, we’ve gotten lucky and he has yet to go ...
Spouse Confessions: Post Deployment Sex
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The Deployment Curse. We've all heard about it. Many of us have experienced it. And most of us have even ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
How to Survive Deployment When You Have Nothing Left to Give
By Jo My Gosh! Deployment is hard. It’s draining—physically, emotionally, mentally. It’s hard to be separated from your partner and ...
10 Hilarious Ways to Count Down Deployment
Whew! You did it. The despairingly stomach-churning deployment goodbye is done. You’ve made a serious dent in your Costco-sized tissue ...
Losing the One You Love to War
Once someone we love has served in the military, we are family. – Tyra Manning Military life is rife with ...
5 Things No One Ever Told Me About Homecoming
We all know that homecoming is amazing, but there are a few homecoming secrets that we keep as milspouses... We ...
Impatiently Waiting for Patience
I am exceptionally, incredibly, extraordinarily impatient. I have always had problems waiting: summer to arrive, Christmas gifts to be opened, ...
Why Do I Keep Moving This One Box?
It keeps staring at me from the back of our storage closet. That box with the moving stickers from many ...
The Hard Work of Falling in Love After Deployment…Again
About six months ago my husband returned from his third deployment overseas. True to military life: the deployment, homecoming and ...
Spouse Confessions: I Am the Hooah Army Wife
Editor's Note: All of the pieces in our Confessions Series are anonymous. I am THAT wife: The Hooah Wife I ...
I Hate Saying Goodbye
I don’t cry when I say goodbye any more. I can’t. I’m sure it’s because I’ve said too many. It ...
