Blogger and former military spouse Lisa Smith Molinari explores the culture of fear and how it has shaped generations of children.
“In four months, he trained with another recruit and lost 100 pounds. ...He changed his life just so he could serve."
Studies have shown that military families can develop chronic, severe grief symptoms that last for years. A new study is attempting to help these families cope with grief with the use of a new app.
Making friends with your neighbors in a military community is a very different process from making friends with your neighbors in the civilian sector, as this veteran military spouse finds out.
In theory, marriage should be the perfect balance of power between two parties. But in reality, marriage is often an adversarial system, requiring the two parties to regularly negotiate resolutions to conflicts.
“Honey, my job is a priority,” my husband reminded, after saying that he would not be home to help me pack for our family vacation.
“It’s a boy,” Doc Walker said as plainly as, “Please pass the salt.” It was April 4, 1995, at the hospital in Monterey, California. After twelve hours of labor turned the whites of my eyes blo…
Every time I hear the gut-wrenching statistic that twenty military veterans commit suicide every day, my throat catches. The shocking reality that more lives have been lost to veteran suicide …
Last weekend, our youngest daughter, Lilly, went to senior prom. Three weeks before that, we had an epic mother-daughter argument in a TJ Maxx dressing room.
At about eight o’clock each night, a little voice calls me. “C’mon,” it says, “It will relax you. You know you want it.”
“When we were leaving Guam, Devon isolated himself from his friends as they were isolating him. We dealt with it by spending more time with one friend and her family that didn’t isolate him an…
