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When you feel like a stranger in your own home after deployment

I came back from deployment and my wife had rearranged everything in our house and I feel like a stranger in my own home but I cannot tell her because she was holding everything together while I was gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The disorientation of return reveals how deployment changes both the warrior and the world they left behind, creating a painful gap where belonging used to be.

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