Military Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Long Distance
Hello Ladies,
Was just curious if any of you had advice with dealing with the distance..
Re: Long Distance
Eat all your favorite foods, do stuff you've wanted to but haven't been able to (pottery class, learn to play guitar, etc).
When my husband went TDY, I cleaned the entire house top to bottom and ate all of the things he hates and I love. I went to the gym every night and worked out for longer than I normally would because no one was home to care when I got back. I loved having the whole bed to myself and falling asleep to my favorite chick show or movie. I missed him a lot, but focusing on the other stuff filled up my day so that we had stuff to talk about.
Get a hug from your mom, cousin, friend, when you need one. Not having that physical comfort is always difficult, that was something my H's mother (MC brat) told me when H first left for boot.
While in school, I tried to stay busy with friends, homework and school events.
Since then I have adapted to staying busy with new hobbies/classes, going to the gym, scrapbooking, dinner/lunches with friends etc.
Try to keep your mind busy.
The biggest thing I needed to was to really 'live' in the city I was, and not spend all my time wishing I was with him. That will just make a person miserable.
I changed my name
Keeping busy has been key for me. It's a little easier with a 2-year-old running the show at my place, but I also have hobbies I've picked up [scrapbooking being one of them] to fill in the times when DS is with my mom or sleeping.
A lot of my friends have offered to come hang out with me, which I've taken them up on more often than I used to. It's nice to have a support system around, that's for sure.