The article explores the challenges faced by a military spouse who, while supporting her husband's active-duty Air Force career, struggles with solo parenting, relocations, and her own career ambitions. Despite her own accomplishments, the demands of military life have left her feeling isolated and in survival mode, lacking the space to pursue her goals. She highlights the difficulty in balancing support for her husband's success while grappling with her own feelings of resentment and loss of identity as she watches him thrive professionally.
My husband's career thrived while mine crumbled under the demands of holding our household together, unrelenting loneliness, and lack of opportunity.
The hardest part of the military lifestyle has been figuring out how to mutually support each other's happiness amidst the sacrifices.
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