Marriages come in all shapes and sizes. Our world is shrinking and at the same time creating new challenges for our relationships.
In Finding Joy I share my family’s story of deployments and St. Jude trips to Memphis and how it created an environment where we were apart more then together. But medical challenges and the military are not the only things that relocate our partners miles apart.
Next Friday I am giving away an autographed copy of my new book, Finding Joy: The Year Apart That Made Me A Better Wife.
I look forward to reading all of your comments and getting to know each of you a little better.
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To learn more about Finding Joy visit Finding Joy Media Page. There you will find links to interviews, media mentions, and soon reviews.
If you are in El Paso I would love for you to join my family and friends on October 20th at First Presbyterian Church to celebrate the book launch.
I have been married 13 1/2 years the hole time in the military. And long distance has look like 5 deployments and many training and schools. More then half our marriage apart but it taught me strength I never new I had. It made my love and trust in the lord stronger. And in the end the distance is only temporary and worth the wait to be a hole family again.
Congratulations on 13 + years. The one thing about deployments I love is how it proves over and over he is worth the wait 🙂
I think it is awesome you have a book out!! I would love to read it! 🙂
I’ve been married for 15 years. Military for all but two. Humanly speaking, deployment didn’t make our marriage stronger, but it was clearly a part of God’s plan for our lives. Now we’re in Okinawa, and I’ve learned not to complain, because there are plenty of strong women around me who see their husbands less than I do!
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I have been .arrived almost 30 years. We haven’t done the long distance thing, but he is a truckdriver so we’ve done long term thing. Where we have been apart up to 8 wks at a time.
This was before cells, before internet. We just did. Because God tells us to!
Congratulations on the launch! I will continuing sharing across my social media channels. 🙂
Thank you Heather 🙂
I have been married for 13 years as well and all of those years I have been a military wife. I love this life and do not believe I would be where I am in my walk with the Lord if it were not for this military life. The Lord is the one constant! Separations are hard and saying “see ya later” to the love of your life never gets easy, no matter the time in between that last kiss and that reuniting embrace. However, separations have taught us not to take for granted the time we have together and that marriage is 100% from each person.