Breanne CassidyNov 29, 20182 minWhat Closing the Distance Has Taught Me Thus FarTwo months ago, I packed my entire life up into my Honda Civic and drove across the country to finally close this damn distance between...
Breanne CassidyAug 1, 20184 minClosing the Distance: How to Start Your Move Two Months AheadFreaking out is an understatement. I am officially two months out from picking up my entire life, moving it across the country and I am a...
Breanne CassidyJul 12, 20182 minTwo Simple Rules for Your Sub Ball/Navy Ball DressDress shopping for Sub Ball was so stressful and, when I look back on it, it really didn’t have to be. I spent hours looking through my...
Breanne CassidyJun 23, 20183 minAfter Three Years, We Are Finally Closing The DistanceSeptember 15th. That’s the date I want to finally close the gap between me and Taylor. Emotionally, it took me a very long time to get to...
Breanne CassidyMay 7, 20183 minDeployment Diaries: What is a Deployment Like?Deployment is… a whole mess of emotions that I don’t even have a word for. It was like going through puberty, it was like I was dating a...
Breanne CassidyJan 22, 20183 minDeployment Diaries: What to Send in a Care PackageAfter T deployed, care packaging got a little more serious. The things I was sending before were, in all honesty, more for my enjoyment...
Breanne CassidyJan 15, 20182 minAsk His First Mate: What Do You Do When You Feel Insecure About Your Relationship?I remember who my boyfriend is. Coming from a few bad relationships, bad feelings still come up from time to time where I get afraid that...
Breanne CassidyDec 18, 20173 minDeployment Diaries: How to Go Weeks Without Speaking to Your SOEvery deployment and situation is different. You may go through a deployment and have decent communication the whole way through or there...
Breanne CassidyNov 29, 20172 minYou Are Not Naive For Being a MILSOI’ve heard it at least three times since I came back from Hawaii…how silly or naive I am for being a military significant other. I...
Breanne CassidyOct 23, 20173 minDeployment Diaries: Six Ways to Make the Time FlyI felt really overwhelmed after Taylor left. It is my first time going through a deployment and I had no idea where to start as silly as...
Breanne CassidyOct 16, 20174 minHawaii Travels and Deployment GoodbyesIt would be an understatement to tell you that Hawaii was beautiful. And the time that I spent with Taylor and his family was just as...
Breanne CassidySep 11, 20172 minWhat’s in my Care Package: Quick and Easy Birthday EditionShopping for Taylor’s birthday present was a piece of cake this year (all puns intended!). We went to St. Louis last time he came home on...
Breanne CassidyAug 28, 20175 minSix Tips to Surviving the First Underway*For the safety of my sailor and his boat, there are no dates, locations or names posted. The article has been written and posted after...
Breanne CassidyJul 31, 20172 minThe Three Things You Need To Be A Military Significant OtherFor two years I have had more people than I can count ask me, “How do you do it?” And I have never had an answer. I didn’t really know...
Breanne CassidyJul 12, 20173 minHow to Get Back On Your Feet After They LeaveYou’ve just spent this amazing few weeks with your SO filled with lots of love, companionship, laughter, fun-filled plans and parties....
Breanne CassidyJul 3, 20172 minI Didn’t Choose the Military, I Chose HimMilitary relationships are not Dear John. It’s not romantic. It’s not wonderful. When you ask a little girl where she sees herself one...
Breanne CassidyJun 26, 20173 minFive Tips on How to Handle the DistanceThere is no denying that distance is hard and I would be silly if I told you that I have found a way to deal with it completely. I...
Breanne CassidyJun 5, 20173 minHow I Became A Military GirlfriendI was in a really shitty relationship. That’s how this story starts. And when I say shitty, I mean really, really shitty. I met that guy...
Breanne CassidyMay 15, 20173 minHow to Plan a Welcome Home Scavenger Hunt for Your Significant OtherTaylor has been pretty grumpy lately (for good reason too) so I went last weekend for two days to cheer him up a bit. It was a normal...
Breanne CassidyApr 24, 20174 minSeven Ways to Help Alleviate the Fear of Being Cheated OnI hear all the stories. The ones where a sailor comes home and the house that once held his valuables, his life and his wife is now...