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I missed my children. But when I got home, it was so overwhelming...

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I deployed with a Transportation Company.

There weren't a lot of females that I worked with.

And when I redeployed, there was a Field Artillery Unit,

National Guard, in our neighborhood that redeployed

at the same time I did so it was all male.

It's a male unit.

I'm not one to get into gender stereotypes but coming back

as a mom, I think I'm the only mom

in the community that had deployed.

And we're expected to come back nurturing and ready to just step

into our roles and that added to the isolation as well

because I lost all my domestic skills.

For a year I only had to feed myself.

I only had to lookout for my own laundry.

I missed it, I missed my children but when I got home,

it was so overwhelming, the thought of having

to organize a shopping list and I wasn't hungry

so it didn't occur to me

to prepare something for my children.

I was very out of touch with that role that I'd had.

There's a lot of judgment there because I guess it's supposed

to be a skill that you're born with and really,

it's something you acquire and I'd lost it.

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