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Life After Deployment: Military families share reunion stories and advice

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"Life After Deployment" is author Karen Pavlicin's sequel to her award-winning book "Surviving Deployment". Mrs. Pavlicin has written another important book for the military family and their friends and relatives.

The writer is a wife of a Marine with multiple deployments, and this book deals with the many problems faced by wives and families when their servicemen return from deployment. These are not theoretical problems - these are the problems faced by too many families today: dealing with the children - re-establishing parental authority - PTSD - intimacy issues...plus how to best handle combat deaths and injuries...this book is filled with practical solutions Mrs. Pavlicin has elicited from the thousands of wives and families who have - and are - facing these issues.

With so few Americans volunteering to serve in the military (approx 0.07 % of the population), there is a deplorable lack of data and professional assistance for these families; most therapists have no clue how to deal with the anger of a child whose father died in Iraq or came home missing a limb from an IED attack in Afghanistan - this book is the first step to filling that void.

This book should be given to every spouse as his or her serviceman steps off the airplane back onto US tarmac. Well-written and thorough, the issues raised here are important ones that these families need to recognize and face, and Mrs. Pavlicin - the widow of a multiple-deployed Marine - does a first-rate job taking care of her now -over-extended military family. High Recommended !!

In my opinion this book is a must have for todays military families facing the deployments they are facing. There are many stories to help you realize that you are not alone, how others have dealt with the uncertainty of deployment and reunion. It is also filled with tips and links to help you along your journey.
Reading this book will not only help you to understand what todays families face it also gives encouragement in knowing that not only are others facing the same things you are but that you can do this just as many other families have done in the past and will continue to do in the future.

This is a useful book for families having to deal with a deployment and related issues.

I really enjoyed this book it was very helpful for me. My husband just got home from a year long tour and he is thinking of reading it now. I would tell any one that is going through a deployment to read this book i feel that it would help out with how to deal with it.

this book was helpful to me, as far as what to expect when my soldier comes home, especially b/c it has others's stories so its not just one persons point of view. I do not have children yet so some parts of this book did not affect me. For those who have children, it gives you lots of info on how kids of all ages react to the return.