When your spouse is serving in the military, even though you are proud of them, you have a special challenge on your hands, and that is: how do you stay in touch with each other when he or she is sent away from your home base?
How do you communicate with each other when you have so many obstacles standing in your way?
It’s not easy, but it IS possible. That’s what Sheri and Bob Stritof want to convey to you.
In an article they have posted on the web site about.com they have written 9 great tips to help you with this mission as well as a suggested reading list, and more resources, as well as related articles — all with links provided to help you.
To read what they have posted that could help you in your marriage, please click onto the link below:
Another article that you may find helpful is written by Ellie Kay and is posted on the terrific web site for Marriage Partnership Magazine. To read what they have posted, please click onto the link provided below:
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(USA) Where to begin; We are in our first long term deployment. Reality hits in our emails, telephone and video calls. We talk only about our children, money and nothing else. Oh, we are very polite and communicate “I love you”. But I don’t know if it is really heart felt.
I also believe that a lot of military marriages are dysfunctional, and the separation of a deployment just adds fuel to a flame that has been smoldering for years. Spouses learn to survive infidelity, and every abuse known because we men and women have given our all to keep the marriage intact. We have no career to speak of, thus no retirement benefits.
But know that is not our driving point. On the spiritual side, many believe that marriage is forever and that we do what we have to in order to keep the partnership alive. But when there is a deployment thrust in the middle of living a marriage in survival zone, what do we do? How do we pray for a better relationship when the communication is the same? Nothing has changed and having no physical contact makes it even harder. How do I pray; how do I keep the faith that we will survive, because this is what God put together?