I love being a military spouse but I am tired of my identity being defined entirely by my husband's job and I do not know who I am apart from his rank and deployment schedule.
More people experience this than they realize.
The subsumption of individual identity into military family roles can be so complete that discovering autonomous selfhood becomes genuinely difficult.
“Where Are You with Veterans & Military Families?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.