There are countless relationships to balance in this milspouse life. Our kids, friends, neighbors, spouses coworkers, and of course, our service members!
Relationships need communication, compromise, and the ability to adapt. Command Team has decades worth of experience navigating these situations and share their professional and personal knowledge on various relationship topics.
Some topics include how to have thriving friendships, raise resilient kids, have a loving marriage and overcome obstacles with others and yourself. We want you to thrive in relationships because, in this milspouse life, we need support and community. So, join our Mission: Milspouse community and learn how to better relate to yours on this page.
On this episode, we’re chatting with Amy L. Sullivan, here to offer practical advice related to parenting and her book, When More is Not Enough: How to Stop Giving Your Kids What They Want and Give The What They Need.
On this episode of AWTR, we’re chatting with the 2015 Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year, Corie Weathers, about her book, Sacred Spaces: My Journey to the Heart of Military Marriage.
I bet I know your reaction to my use of “best deployment.” I bet you scoffed or guffawed, saying, there is no such thing.
It’s like saying, “most enjoyable root canal ever” or “greatest day spent at the DMV ever.”
Because let’s be honest, the real “best deployment ever” is probably no deployment at all.
But when you’re married to a service member, we take what we can get. How about we compromise and say that this post is about the second best deployment ever, yes?
Sometimes the life of the military spouse flows like a gentle creek babbling along peacefully. You find yourself with content children, your service member isn’t deployed and is engaged at home, you’ve been sticking to your family budget, and the cat hasn’t thrown up on the carpet once this week.
Things are a-flowin’ quite nicely.
Unfortunately, life is rarely so smooth.
If there was ever a group of people who had the right to keep on complaining, that would be military spouses.
I mean, really!
We endure cross-country (sometimes cross-globe) relocations, separations from our service members for months, spur-of-the-moment field trainings that require our beloved spouses to be gone for weeks, early mornings, late nights, travel restrictions, leave restrictions, missed holidays, and more.
The orders come telling you it’s time to move…again. Your heart fills with anxiety and anticipation, all at once. So much to do to get ready! So much to pack! How in the world did we accumulate so much stuff? Your mind is spinning with a to-do list that keeps growing with each new thought and idea.
How will I get it all done?
But wait! There is one very important item to add to your agenda—your child.
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