• 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.