The plan is there is no plan. That's the reality of being a military spouse. What do you do when circumstances beyond your control affect your wedding like a pandemic such as the coronavirus or military orders?
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Bye-Bye Bump, Hello Baby
Every birth story is different. This is JJ's. We had an elective induction at Camp LeJeune Naval Medical Center.
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My Purpose
I’m finding it really hard to explain what leaving my dream job is like. Probably because it still feels like a dream to me. A dream that I got this job in the first place, and a dream that it’s ending.
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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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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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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 “Firsts”
One of the very first posts on Warrior Wife was a Pre-Wedding Q&A. You guys seemed to love that so Jett and I thought it might be cool to recap on our “firsts” as a couple for the New Year! Enjoy!
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Doing Distance
Long distance. If you’re in a relationship with someone in the military, it’s very likely you’re going to experience a long distance relationship at some point in time. Maybe it’s for training, maybe it’s a deployment, either way, it’s pretty common in the military. Jett and I have been long distance since the very beginning and still are. Yupp, you read that right. We are married and in a long distance relationship.
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2018 Recap
I may only be 25(soon-to-be 26), but I’m convinced 2018 was my year. I got engaged to my best friend, worked/witnessed some pretty cool sporting events, worked another year in my dream job, got a pet turtle, traveled the country and the world and of course, I married my best friend. If you follow me on Instagram you saw me post a snippet of my year in an Instagram Story review. If you don’t follow me on IG, what are you waitin’ for?! I saw a lot of people complaining on social media about how everyone was posting end of year reviews, but you know what? WHO CARES! If you…
