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[quote=Anonymous]DH is retired Air Force and had a few deployments but nothing like what my Army friends had to endure. I never found that it was easier with him away but there wasn't anyone to help so you just had to power through stuff... clean the puke up, deal with the flat tire, fix the leaky toilet. Eventually there was a routine and a structure but it wasn't easier.

The hardest part was the transition period before the routines were established, and it was just as hard when he came back as when he left, honestly.

Lots of pressure to "bloom where you're planted" (gag), at least with the groups of people we were around. Maybe that's an Air Force officer wife thing and other services are more real, I don't know.

It's simple to make appearances look great though, so you would have never known from Facebook that I didn't sleep for days on end because 3 kids & I got Norovirus one after the other and then the heater broke at 2am when it was minus 20 outside. You might have seen the carpet picnic dinner and the kids in PJs though and just thought we were doing our we're-making-the-best-of-it deployment thing, never wondering why they still weren't dressed for the day.[/quote]

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