MILSO struggles

When the homecoming countdown gets into double digits:

When the spouse group chat is discussing the holiday care packages they all sent, but you forgot to send one:

When the group chat is discussing homecoming photographers and you realize you’re the only one who didn’t book somebody:

Filling out your “Dream Sheet” of potential PCS locations & hoping you get what you want for once:

MILSO life in a nutshell

When friends ask how The Homecoming Diet is going:

When you want to get off social media, but your SO lives in your phone for an unnatural proportion of your lives.

When an application asks for your addresses from the past ten years

When you finally find a new duty station BFF and they immediately PCS

When they get sent away on a multi-week training mission just before they are about to deploy for months

How it feels like the scheduling office reacts when they get your SO’s leave request:

Trying to get signed up for any type of spouse assistance program

When your SO is finally able to take leave but it happens to be the one time a year you CAN’T take off work:

When you have to go on a new base without your SO and are trying to get around, but don’t know where you’re going and all the buildings look the same:

When you’re paranoid about the PCS movers ruining all your new wedding gift stuff so you pack obsessively:

People: “How do you handle your SO being gone during deployments?”

The amount of paperwork it takes to do literally anything: