MilSpouse Life
With all the unique ups and downs of military life, every military spouse can use a few military life hacks to keep life running smoothly. When chatting with other spouses at the playground or over a cup of coffee, I'm always surprised to learn that many spouses don't know about these life hacks. [...]
How to Survive the Holidays Alone During Deployment
Alone for the holidays as a military spouse in Costal North Carolina, I was exactly 1,051.3 miles from my family in the Midwest while my husband was deployed. It was the most difficult holiday season of my life. Working as a critical care nurse, I had a life that was filled with responsibility and obligations. It wasn’t all that easy to [...]
DeploymentThe Deployment Diet No One Talks About
You always hear these stories about military wives transforming their lives with healthy eating during deployment. They lose all this weight, look more incredible than you ever thought was possible, and make you wonder how they did it all. But then there’s a secret group of spouses who maintain the type of military wife deployment diet [...]
The Best Advice for the Military Girlfriend
There is rarely a week that passes where I don't hear from a military girlfriend. She is seeking support, friendship and acceptance into the military community. Researching this post, I found much of the advice for military girlfriends discouraging. She needs to know "her place." She is "just a girlfriend." She is "not entitled to [...]
7 Unique Military Care Package Ideas You Haven’t Tried Yet
Military care packages are fun, right? You get to put together something special for a person you really care about. And if you don't know the person you are sending the care package to, you obviously still care about them enough to participate in a random act of kindness. *post contains affiliate links for your convenience If you are [...]
57 Things Military Spouses Can Stop Apologizing For
I was at the park the other day with my son, taking him out for some exercise in an effort to burn off some of his endless energy. The child just needs an open space to run and jump and eat sticks and whatever else he feels compelled to do. You know how people always joke about how much energy their kids have? Yeah, now that I have an [...]
3 Signs You’re Friends With an Awesome Military Spouse
Anytime you are part of a life where you move around a lot, you start to find out who your true friends are real fast. Some people just aren’t very good friends. You can spot them from a mile away. They rarely reciprocate kindness or reach out to you when you are struggling. They ignore your phone calls completely or cancel on you at the [...]
Military ResourcesManners for Milspouses: 12 Must-Know Etiquette Rules of Military Life
I’ve seen some really classy military spouses in my time as a military wife and military girlfriend. And I do mean classy in a literal, non-sarcastic way. They seem to have it together (mostly). They know the rules of military life like the back of their hand. Meanwhile I’m over hear in the corner secretly wishing there was a handbook [...]
3 Things Military Spouses Don’t Need (and One Thing They Do)
You get a few bad apples and all of a sudden the whole tree is rotten? This is the question I think of when I see articles running rampant on the web about military families and their overwhelming sense of entitlement. There is a growing argument that military spouses are running around throwing fits and tantrums over their lack of [...]
5 Ridiculous Lies About Military Spouse Unemployment
You might hear this infamous stereotype time and time again—military spouses are lazy, uneducated, and by the way, they never work. It’s kind of irritating actually. Especially if you are a spouse, like most are, who is hard-working and supports her family equally as much as her spouse. There are a lot of reasons why military spouses [...]
