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When military spouse identity overshadows personal identity

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.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The subsumption of individual identity into military family roles can be so complete that discovering autonomous selfhood becomes genuinely difficult.

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