... a featured posting by a fellow blogger, Jen. Jen's husband is preparing for an unaccompanied tour and she writes about the
lessons learned when he was off on training on her
family blog (which we also linked to on the left hand side). Reading through Jen's post reminded me of the year that my fiance, JT (former resident of Danville - small world!), was at the US Embassy in Baghdad. I was here in DC (it was our second year apart) and I certainly didn't get enough sleep or exercise, take well-deserved breaks, rid my apartment of useless stuff (well I
tried when I moved apartments), and my patience was lacking at times. JT was in Iraq during some pretty rough periods and my constant news-reading and
Reuters searches of "US Embassy Baghdad" were not helpful to my overall well-being. Sometimes I would decline an invitation from a friend to see a movie or grab dinner because I would want to be available to talk when/if he called. There are things that you can't control and I've learned now to let those things go and
try not to let those things get to me too much.
I know a lot of you readers out there have helpful advice or tips that are helping or helped you manage an unaccompanied assignment (whether you were the employee on the UT or the family member). If you blog and have postings you would like to share, please
comment or send me an email at
FLOaskUT@state.gov. Or, if you would just like to email me a story, thought, idea, or tip, please do so!
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