Knee Deep in the Hooah!

I have the following post up at AllMil and wanted to share a snippet of it here. Stop by and share your own strategies for keeping communication alive and well on the homefront when your loved one is deployed.

Good communication is vital for healthy relationships. Communicating can be a complicated and arduous at times, even in the best of marriages. Times of added stress increase the need for communication with a spouse or loved one. Talking things through allows us to gain a sense of reassurance and to garner a good understanding of where the other person is coming from.

Deployment is a definite time of increased stress. Whether you are anticipating deployment, currently have a deployed spouse or loved one, or are facing the stress of reintegrating your family after a long separation, you are in some form or phase of stress, anxiety and grief. The dilemma we face during this time of much needed communication is that the very thing we need becomes a very hard to come by commodity.

What can you do to ensure that the lines of communication stay open during deployment? Of course there is no magic formula, but there are ways to prepare before deployment occurs and things you can do to keep your hearts fond as you live through the time of absence.  Continue…