Military life comes with a learning curve, and no new military spouse gets everything right in the beginning. These common mistakes can help you feel less alone, learn what matters, and give yourself grace as you figure out this life.
Military Spouse Spotlight: Fitness, Motherhood, and Building a Portable Business
Taryn’s journey through fitness, motherhood, military life, medical school, and Guam is a powerful reminder that progress does not always require perfect circumstances. As an Air Force wife, mom, personal trainer, and business owner, she has learned how to keep showing up for herself even when life refuses to stay predictable.
The 15 Stages You Will Experience On Your Next Military PCS to a Brand New Place
These are the stages of a Military PCS PCS season is around the corner and life is getting quite hectic for quite a few military families. Although it has been a while since our family has gone through a military PCS, I remember the process and how stressful and crazy everything can be. 1. Bored…
What You and Your Spouse Need to Talk About Before They Deploy
What You and Your Spouse Need to Talk About Before They Deploy There are a lot of preparations that need to happen before a service member deploys. He or she will go through a lot of pre-deployment tasks from packing their bags to paperwork within their units. They will have bags ready to go weeks…
The Military is Going to Disappoint You
Making plans as a military spouse feels like gambling. Will we be able to go on that trip? Will we really move to that state next year? What will the next few years look like? I learned pretty quickly that the military is going to disappoint you. Paperwork takes longer than it should, dates get…
9 Lessons Learned On Our Military Retirement Journey
By Melonie Kennedy This is it. We’re handing in the keys to our on-post housing in a few days, then my husband will begin terminal leave. After sixteen years of marriage, seven duty stations, several deployments, and so many TDY’s I can’t even remember them all, it’s over. He’s out. The End. Retirement is a…
When You Can’t Talk With Your Spouse
When You Can’t Talk With Your Spouse 30 days. 30 long days. That was the longest my husband and I have gone without talking during a deployment. No emails. No calls. No Facetime. I knew he was okay. I knew this because “no news is good news” and I just had to believe it. Although…
13 Super Smart Marriage Tips For Military Couples During a Deployment!
With a deployment in the future, you could be a little worried about your marriage. You have heard the stories, you just don’t know what being away from one another for an extended period of time will be like. How will your marriage get through this? Will you come out stronger on the other side?…
Spouse Spotlight: Mackenzie, The Simple Power of Bread
This Military Spouse Spotlight is about a military spouse in Guam who is turning her hobbies into an amazing small business. Warning: This article will make you hungry! There’s a certain kind of magic that comes from transforming a hobby into a business. For Mackenzie, her love for baking has blossomed into Lyre & Loaf,…
Embrace the Suck: Advice to a MilSpouse Going Through Your First Deployment.
Happy to have this guest post by Megan on her best advice for a military spouse. Please email me at Julie@soldierswifecrazylife.com and let me know if you would like to write a guest post for Soldier’s Wife, Crazy Life too. I just spend 3 hours on the phone with a spouse friend discussing spouses going through their…