Reintegration

How do you keep new parents close to their babies when they are stationed thousands of miles away?

If marriage is a bookshelf, then a military marriage can be a collection of loneliness.

A soldier figures out how to adjust to first-time fatherhood after a long deployment, as his family welcomes him home.

We want the newly returned servicemember to take on some kid duties. Then, he does it wrong and we pick him to pieces.

We all have things we do to get ready for a spouse returning from a deployment. But we often get angry when he doesn't notice...

One military wife refers to the whole deployment cycle as "Wait-Honeymoon-Suck."

We are in that post-deployment period -- a honeymoon, of sorts -- when nothing else registers or matters except being...

How do you deal with the challenges of homecoming? The real challenge is life after deployment.

This is not about sex. Its about how to sleep with someone again after you've spent a lot of time not sleeping with them.

You’ve spent months looking forward to this moment: Reunion. But after reunion comes reintegration -- and while both are...