In Episode 25 I talked with Amy, mother to a toddler and wife of a deployed Navy officer, about her experiences dealing with deployment. I got quite a few responses to that episode, so I decided to turn it into a three part series. This is Part II of the series and this time I talk with Melitsa, mother of three boys, whose husband is on a one year remote tour. She is half way through this tour, so I asked her about how she prepared her boys, how she handles the day to day stressors, and how this long of an absence has affected her marriage.
This interview left me encouraged about any future deployment I may experience as a mother. Although stressful, Melitsa points out that the deployment can also act a sort of marriage and family reset button. I love that term. Melitsa is a fellow podcaster, so check out her sites raisingplayfultots.com and play-activities.com.
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Great podcast but I don’t think you remember all the things we went through when Dad deployed. We moved to base housing when he was gone and one time we sold our house in San Jose to get transferred only to find out that we weren’t leaving so we had to unsell the house. The new buyers were not very happy about that! I’m kind of glad that we didn’t move to Hawaii since the bugs are really big there!
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