Published: February 23, 2007
Most families and soldiers cope, sometimes heroically. But these
separations have also left a trail of badly strained or broken unions,
many severed by adultery or sexual addictions; burdened spouses, some
of whom are reaching for antidepressants; financial turmoil brought on
by rising debts, lost wages and overspending; emotionally bruised
children whose grades sometimes plummet; and anxious parents who at
times turn on each other.
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I have certainly seen this in my daughter's marriage. Young, married only a few months, husband sent off for a second tour in Iraq - the strain has been hard for all of us. Now she is pregnant and her 21 year old husband is slated to go back to Iraq for his 3rd tour, this time for 12 months. It doesn't feel like a marriage to either one of them.
