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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.