Approved ways to survive deployments
| • | Military couples learning to live an ocean apart |
Advertiser Staff
Advice from the Schofield Barracks Predeployment Book:
• Set goals. Begin a self-development program.
• Get involved in some activity or hobby.
• Go out with friends, and leave your children with a baby-sitter.
• Don't "run home to mother" if the going gets rough. That, at best, is a temporary solution.
• Keep a diary of your thoughts while your spouse is absent. Include snapshots of yourself and children.
• If you and your spouse have some differences, try to work them out before you are separated so they don't get bigger.
• Find a friend, such as another military spouse who is temporarily alone.
• Little things can help a lot. Cook, sew, play the piano, do some physical labor to relieve emotional tiredness.
• Take the children on an outing to a museum, library or beach.
• Don't sit at home wishing your spouse were there. Get a group together and go bowling or to a restaurant.
• Once your spouse comes home, take time to adjust to each other.
