5 ways to have healthy intimacy during deployment! A Christian Couple perspective.

We still have a lot to learn through the next few months of living together but here are some things we have learned that may be able to help you too!

Is your significant other coming home from deployment soon?  This is the second to the last stage of deployment! I am sure you are as excited as I am for them to return! 😃 Here are just a few tips to help you with the anticipation of their return!

Are you going through a deployment or even have one coming up in the future? Here are 7 tips I believe will help you in surviving these dreadful deployments! You can do this! Don't think for a second you can't. It may be hard at first and that's okay, but growth and strength are on their way!

We are so close to Connor being home from deployment, but I feel like every day gets more and more AGONIZING. I just want him to be home. Is that too much to ask???

Is your significant other deployed? Mine too! Follow me along as I get through each stage of deployment. Each stage has it's own struggles and also rewards because each stage means we are moving forward! Deployment is rough... so let's do it together!

Loneliness is tough. Tough for regular people but especially tough for military families. Today I give you 6 tips on how I help handle my loneliness during this time of deployment! Sometimes it is still difficult don't get me wrong. However, these things help dramatically!

Communicating while on deployment is tough. We must learn how to communicate properly. Learn things we should and should not say. And learn how to talk if a confrontation arises. Here are some tips for deployment communication. I also added in OPSEC rules!   One thing I didn't mention is play some sort of game while writing letters or emailing to stay connected! those are fun and will having you EVEN MORE excited for when the next letter comes(:

Sorry if this was a bit of a ramble. But this is me... Brittani... trying to survive deployment haha. Loneliness sucks, missing them sucks, but I wouldn't change it for anything. This time has been awesome to grow my relationship with the Lord. Depending on HIM for my comfort and peace is hard, but I have slowly progressed in doing so in this first month. Almost 2 months down!!

When our men and women leave out to sea or out of the country for a deployment is can be really rough. We as the significant others go through many series of emotions. Through me and my husband's time apart I will be going through each stage on the "Stages of Deployment" charts and telling how I am dealing with it and what I have been experiencing.  This is Stage 3 of the emotional cycle of deployment and it is the Post deployment and emotional disorganization. Hope you can relate to me on some of these!