Without a doubt, one of the hardest parts about being a submarine spouse is the extended (and usually irregular) underways. Whether they're gone for three weeks here, two months there, or a full-blown seven month deployment, it's all hard. Is it just me or do the chaotic underways sometime feel harder? We have some great [...]
Ok, how many of you have faced that love/hate relationship with refreshing your email inbox during deployment? I know I have! Even when I know that communication is down and the boat has gone “dark” for a mission, I still find myself refreshing my inbox...just to see if anything happened to come through from my [...]
My husband and I married while he was on shore tour, so it was a couple years into our marriage before he went to sea. One morning he called me from the boat and told me to run out and buy a few things because he was leaving the next day to go underway for [...]
