Tag: Relationships

The classic love languages are great in theory—until military life starts limiting your options. When time together is scarce, love ...

Military relationships don’t struggle because of lack of love. They struggle because time, distance, and unpredictability constantly interfere. Connection takes ...

Modern intimacy tips for military couples facing long-distance separation. Deployment changes a lot of things in a relationship — your ...

My husband and I have been married for nearly 17 years. We got married right after he graduated from college ...

When controversy strikes, I know exactly what will happen…my liberal friends will push an agenda calling my conservative friends racist, ...

One week after my husband deployed my little boy amputated the upper portion of his index finger on his dominant ...

Being a Pollyanna, seeing the world through rose colored glasses, living on cloud nine. As a generally positive person, I ...

The park while children play is most often the place of adult interaction these days. Ironically enough, any topic seems ...

As military families we recognize that our lives will never be free of struggle. These same struggles are often times ...

As we go about our lives, it is very easy to get caught up in the monotony of the daily ...

Have you ever noticed that the things that drive us crazy about our spouse/significant other are also the very same ...

Every military spouse experiences holidays without their husband or wife, but many of us try to make the most of ...

As I stood in the Ballroom J of the JW Marriott in downtown Austin on March 15, 2015 getting mic’ed ...

The year was 1914 and the world was immersed in war- the Great War. A war that many envisioned to ...

Recently I was having a conversation with someone who did not have any personal ties to the military. No one ...

About six months ago my husband returned from his third deployment overseas. True to military life: the deployment, homecoming and ...

I work in crisis services at a domestic violence shelter, so it goes without saying that self-care is vital to ...

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