New Direction
I’ve always been on the fence about opening up about a big part of my life, only because there’s a lot of stigma that comes with it. To be quite honest I don’t want to come off like I know everything about it because in reality I don’t and there are spouses that have been doing this much much longer than I have been. To open up is daunting and specially to put yourself out there to receive hate and trying not offending anyone. I’m a military wife, my husband is full time in the National Guard. So, I like to think I have the best of both worlds. While our life is “relatively” normal, as in we don’t move like active military, we still have a lot of the same experiences being military. I think as a national guard spouse it’s hard because this is part of your life but there are others going through it a lot more then you like being in a different state with no family or dealing with multiple deployments alone with kids at home. The list can go on and on, but without always comparing