Customer Comments about Military Divorce Tips
Easiest lamen terms for civilian spouses to understand military divorce…
ByKaren Morgan-Beamon November 6, 2012
I am a stay home military spouse of 4 kids so I want to know EVERYTHING I’m entitled & to the right questions to ask if that time does come to divorce (married 14/14 active duty yrs-but it’s been hell & back at times). Tracy gave step by step, easy to follow directions, terms I could understand, other resources to search, & what I would be losing if opted for one benefit over the other.I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO RESEARCH OVER ALL OTHER’S I’VE LOOKED THROUGH. EVEN IF STILL MARRIED SO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU & CAN BE ON TOP OF THINGS & NOW WHAT I WOULD BE ENTITLED TO. I know it sounds sneaky but I want to be prepared not left with nothing since I didn’t know or schooled myself. I’LL BE GETTING MY HIGHLIGHTER OUT & BOOK MARKING THIS ONE.! VERY WELL WRITTEN. I understood what I was getting into when said I do & not looking to take to cleaners. Just my fair share since face it, when are the backbone & left behind to keep the whole house standing along with kids still alive when comes home from deployment. read more…
We are NOT ALL “opportunistic greedy spouses”…
By Not me on January 14, 2011
Format: Paperback
(This review is for the [apparently] few women who find themselves having their entire lives yanked out from under them by an unexpected Military divorce. Those of you who haven’t had the same experience …don’t judge until you have walked in our shoes.)I wish this book had been around in 2009. I had to learn the hard way–by living through a military divorce. My former husband had already done 1 hitch & got out before I met him, then he went back in before we got married. It didn’t matter to me then, and I’d do it all over again because he will always be the great love of my life…I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. We were happily married. I loved him (still do), I loved the military (still do) & I loved Military Life (miss it). I genuinely felt part of a large extended family. EVERY Base we went to felt like home. When we had been married for 10 years, we did the math: he had been gone for 5 of those 10 years, and that trend never changed. I accepted that as part of the deal going in. I was the self-reliant type who learned quickly that it was the wife’s job to shovel the driveway & mow the lawn…and raise the kids. I was repeatedly told (by the military) that I was a valued & important part of the Military Family…my spouse couldn’t do his job without me, they said. He served his 20+ and retired. And, as military marriages all too often go, things went downhill after retirement. Unfortunately, one person wanting to stay married doesn’t work… read more…
Very helpful
By Jutta on February 7, 2014
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
This book got all the good tips one needs helping people through the bad times of a divorce! A must! read more…