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.
I was reading Honey, I Want to Start My Own Business by Azriela Jaffe and came upon the concept of relationship anchors. These are daily rituals that help you maintain your commitment to the relationship.
Anchors are extremely important when, between work and kids, events can quickly overcome you until neglect your spouse. Anchors can save you time and effort and simplify the way that you relate to each other while increasing your bonds and connections.
This month at AWN, we were encouraged to write about our career and military spouse employment, and to say that this post has been a long time coming is an understatement!
Let me start at the beginning:
If you’re married to the military, chances are you know something about long distance relationships. Deployments, training, circumstances that prevent us from PCSing with our service members, there are a million different reasons we wind up separated from our other halves, sometimes by hundreds or even thousands of miles.
As most of you know Team Crooks just relocated to Lantana, Texas, a civilian community/special assignment near Denton. We love our neighborhood; it’s beautiful. The only problem is that almost everyone here is new due to the homes being new construction. It was the first time we’ve moved somewhere and not been welcomed by a neighbor.
So you just PCS’d (moved away) from your happy little home with all your best battle buddies to your new unsettled home where you know no one.
Now what?
Or, you just got married to the military this past summer, and now you’re in a foreign land, which doesn’t necessarily mean Germany, Puerto Rico, or Japan.
Now what?
Want to know one of the things I love most about the military spouse community?
Hands down, it’s the supportive nature.
You find yourself asking…
“Where do I…?”
“When do I…?”
“How do I…?”
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