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When the Military Plants You Somewhere and It’s Hard to Bloom
Through my family’s time in the Air Force, we’ve loved every place we’ve lived…until now. Moving to Vegas and leaving behind our beloved Virginia has been one heck of a difficult thing to overcome and deal with for my whole family. It’s been almost a year now since leaving Virginia and I still feel like…
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Military Life Is Not A “His/Her Turn,” Situation–It’s An Our Turn
“So, when your husband retires from the Air Force, it will be your turn then, right?” I hear this a lot as a military spouse. Â We are still several years away from my husband retiring, but we are on the tail end of this wonderful, crazy life. Â I knew when marrying my husband that the…
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How The Military Life Can Strengthen Your Marriage
Since Veteran’s Day is celebrated this week, I thought I’d merge marriage and the military life into a blog. Â I’ve been a military spouse long enough now that I can look at how the military life has positively affected my marriage and many others I’ve had the privilege of meeting. Â This blog is in no…
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To Work or Stay Home: The Military Spouse’s Dilemma
When I was fresh out of college with my degree in Criminology, I was ready to take on the world. I was eager to get out into the work world and wrangle in some criminals. Little did I know that marrying a military man would make having a career very challenging. As we moved to…
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Oh The Places You’ll Go: A Military Spouse’s Perspective On Moving Around
I spent the first 23 years of my life living in the same state. Then I married a military man and my time in the great state of Kansas came to an end. Those first few years in the Air Force were extremely hard on me. I felt like a great oak tree that had…