Rachelle Arroyave says she was naïve when her husband left for his first tour in Iraq. “We didn’t even talk about it,” she says of the possibility that he could die.

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If your mother-in-law keeps asking when she can fly in for the homecoming, our combat-tested military spouses have some relationship-saving advice to prevent a MIL disaster.

You walk into a room, and you’re surrounded by beaming women with cocktail glasses. There are no other men in sight. The volume of the conversation stutters.