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Countdowns are for Chumps: Deployment Truths from a Recovering Deployment Spouse
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Publisher: Kimberly Busenbark
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
DEPLOYMENT IS HARD. DOING IT ALONE IS HARDER.
Your service member is leaving. You've got a house to run, kids to wrangle, a job to keep, and approximately seventeen thousand things that apparently cannot wait until they get home. And Murphy has apparently added your address to his permanent mailing list.
Countdowns Are for Chumps is the military-spouse survival guide nobody gave you. After five deployments, military spouse Kimberly Busenbark pulls back the curtain on the reality of deployment-the messy, hilarious, heartbreaking, occasionally infuriating reality. The one that doesn't make it into the inspirational memes.
With unfiltered honesty, sarcasm, practical advice, and stories that will make you laugh when you probably should be crying, Kimberly walks you through every stage of deployment. From the dreaded goodbye all the way to the awkward joy of homecoming and the surprisingly complicated process of putting your family back together again.
This isn't a book about being the perfect military spouse.
It's about surviving the season you're in, finding your village, giving yourself some grace, and laughing whenever you possibly can.
Whether you're facing your first deployment, your fifth, or simply love someone who serves, Countdowns are for Chumps is the friend you didn't know you needed-the one who will tell you the hard truth, make you laugh about it, hand you a snack, and remind you:
You've got this. And if you don't today, that's okay too.
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