If you’re reading this chances are you’re on social media. If you’re on social media, chances are you’ve compared yourself to someone once. Or twice… or more than that. It’s so easy to do, and we do it so much that we often don’t even realize it. You’ll watch a makeup tutorial, or see an #OOTD inspiring and save the post for later because you want what that person has.
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Thriving During Deployment
By Jen Heisel At a homecoming brief recently, every spouse in attendance was asked to sum up the deployment for them in one word. I said this deployment had been empowering. This deployment, my husband’s third and our second together, seemed like a never-ending challenge. Just a few months into the deployment, on a ship with minimal port calls, a Marine lost his life. The internet on the ship was spotty at best. The deployment itself was extended indefinitely(which ended up only being three weeks). In spite of all of that, I felt like I grew more in the eight months than I had at any other point in my…
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A Letter to my Younger Self
Dear Anastasia,
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Flying Solo
If you’re in a long distance relationship you don’t have the option of living with your spouse. So, what do you do? Live alone? Live with roommates? I’ve done both and it just depends on where you are in life. When I moved to Kansas in March of 2016 I lived on my own for the first time. I didn’t make much at KU but rent was cheap. I was paying a little over $600 a month for an 800 square foot apartment a few miles from campus. When I moved to Georgia in February of 2017 I quickly realized that living alone was no longer a luxury I could…
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Staying Connected During Deployment
By Jen Heisel My husband and I have been together for three-and-a-half years and in that time, he’s been on two deployments, multiple exercises, training across the country, night flights, overnight trips, etc. We had to learn very quickly how to not only make our relationship survive but also thrive, in the midst of time apart.
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The Reality of Relationships
Growing up sucks. Bills, insurance, debt, working and the list goes on. Naivety wears off and suddenly you’re a responsible adult. But the worst part about adulting has been how drastic the dynamic of relationships has changed.
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Distance For Him
Distance is hard. Whether you’re the man or the woman in the relationship, distance effects both parties equally and in different ways. It’s very easy to think that you can make a long distance relationship work but making it happen is something that takes time, commitment, love, respect and a million other things. Most days are pretty easy, but it’s those hard days that really try you as a man and as a partner.
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Our Proposal Story
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Wedding Wednesday | Our Vows
I hounded Jett to work on his vows. About five or six months before our wedding I got us each little notebooks to write our vows in. I had looked at a bunch of different vow writing tips on Pinterest and done quite a few writing exercises, but honestly, I flew to Texas with no idea what I was going to say to Jett on our wedding day. Jett actually listened to me and finished his vows about three weeks before our wedding. You would think this would have made me happy right? Wrong. He ended up sending his vows to our friends and screenshotting their replies gushing over how…
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Wedding Wednesday | Day Of Tips
The BIG DAY! It’s here, or almost here. It’s crazy to think you’ve spent months planning for something that only lasts for a few hours. There are so many moving pieces to today, that something is bound to not go as planned. It’s okay. If you look up Type-A in the dictionary, I swear my picture is there. I thought I had everything planned to a T and taken care of… But that wasn’t the case. We had a few hiccups and our day was still perfect.