Army Wives’s Lives has transformed from one woman’s story to a community of voices reflecting the military spouse experience. We welcome contributions from all military spouses (present and past…and even future) and occasionally from military members, other family members, and total civilians if the topic relates to the military spouse experience.
Why Guest Blog?
Here are a few reasons you might want to Guest Blog on Army Wives’ Lives:
- You don’t have a blog but you want to share something with blog readers.
- You want to share something anonymously. Maybe you have a blog, or don’t, but you really have something to say and you don’t want it connected with your name and/or your online profile. I’ll be happy to accept anonymous postings.
- You have a new blog and you want to become more involved with the military spouse blogging community. In your guest post, you can link to your blog.
Who Can Guest Blog?
All military family members are welcome. I do not care whether you are male, female, young, old, a blogger or not, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Active Duty, National Guard, Reserves, etc. In fact, military personnel are also welcome if they have something to say about issues specifically relating to the spouse experience.
However, and I can’t believe I have to state this explicitly, I do NOT accept Search Engine Optimized “articles” from content writers hired to promote other businesses. If you are looking to advertise on my site, you will have to buy an advertisement.
How to Guest Blog
Write up a post and e-mail it to candace@armywiveslives.com. Include any links you wish to have and any photos (please indicate your source and if you have permission to use the photograph). Let me know if there is a particular week when you would like your post to appear. I will confirm within about two days and then get back to you within about a week.
What to Guest Blog?
Pretty much whatever you like! It should relate in some way to the military spouse experience. That’s really the big one. Your guest post can be a personal, literary, informational, political, editorial, whatever you are thinking! Write a narrative, a short story, a description of your emotional state, a how to guide, or whatever is on your mind. It can be prose or poetry. You can include a photo if you like. Just send me what you have, and we’ll try to find a way to fit it in.
Any restrictions?
- It has to be YOUR WORK. Don’t send me forwards and claim they are yours.
- If you are a blogger, please make sure the material is original. I ask that you do not re-publish the same exact piece on your own blog just so neither of us get tagged as spammers. You can revise it, excerpt it, or revisit the idea on your site and you retain all rights to your material.
- If you are a blogger and intend to link to your site, I request a link back to this post so others will know about the opportunity. You may also link to your post if you like. If you are not a blogger or wish to remain anonymous, this does not apply.
- Again, you should be a military family member sharing your experiences, thoughts, or advice. I am not interested in posts from SEO content writers.
- Do not confess to felonies you are about to or have committed (if you’ve been convicted and served your time…that’s a different story). I am neither priest, nor lawyer and I will turn you in.
- Try to keep it PG-13. Sometimes a little graphic language may contribute to the story, but avoid gratuitous sex, violence, profanity. I will check with you if I would like you to change something and will only publish it if we both agree on any changes–I will not publish anything without your permission.
- Proofread and spell-check. You don’t have to use perfect grammar or create a polished piece, but take the time to run a spell-checker.
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Hi,
My partner will soon be joining the Royal Engineers.
I must admit this is incredibly scary and life changing to me and was wondering what help is there out there?
I feel that there is loads of information for him which is great but hardly any for me.
Im hoping that this site and the people on here will help me? Im petrified and feel really alone in all of this
Im also worried for when we decide to have kids, is it best to bring them up in army surroundings or not? I dont want them to feel this pain
Thanks,
Hannah
Hello fellow army wives!
I am wondering if you can help us out. We have made it to the top ten in the “Salute to Love” dream wedding give away for military couples. We really need some votes.
My husband and I were married in 2007 just three days before he left for basic in a quick VERY SMALL ceremony with just parents and siblings present, hoping (like many military couples) to one day have our dream wedding. Life got in the way and again like many military couples, because of his duty more than 60% of our marriage has been separated by duty.
We now have the opportunity to win our dream wedding and need your help. PLEASE go vote for Walter and Lindsey at http://www.salutetolove.com
thanks!
i would like to start of by asking if anyone has read army wife, army life, stirring the pot? i read it this morning and could not beleive the things this so called “army wife” wrote. she should feel ashamed of herself and so should her husband who agreed with her. to say national guard soldiers are not real soldiers and their wives are not real army wives just angered me so much, it was not only one blow but two blows to me. I am an Oklahoma National Guard Army Soldier and a Proud Army Wife. I met my husband when i got attached to his unit back in 2007 and was sent to Iraq with him and his unit. We spent 9 months overseas came home and had 2 wondeful little girls. This woman has only been married 7 months and has yet to know what its like to be a real Army Wife or a Soldier. My husband missed the birth of our 2nd daughter, didnt get to meet her until she was 5 months old and then only for 2 weeks. he left in Feb of 2011 and wont be back until the end of March beginning of April of this year. Ive had a baby, 2 surgeries one while i was pregnant and the other a week after our daughter was born, our 2 year old asks daddy to come out of the computer all the time and hold her. I am alone and take care of everything for our family him and everything for him while he is over there. i dont get to call him just to talk or ask a question i may go a few days before we are able to talk. i dont get to spend weekends with him or go visit him. Oklahoma has lost 14 soldier and many many more have been wounded both physically and emotionally. there have many so many purple hearts given out during this deployment that i lost count. How can she say these fallen men and women werent soldiers because they were in the guard? thats right their HEROS!!! i do not feel that the families who have read that blog were very happy hearing some ignorant woman say guard soldiers arent real soldiers. shes never put on the uniform. she has no idea what it is really like to be aa solider or be on a deployment. the smell of dirt and stench, the iraqi’s smell of BO so bad it makes you want to puke, the smell of dead bodies, having to touch the dead bodies, seeing your friends blood and guts all over after she blew herself away, being in another country for so long away from family and not being able to call as often as you would have liked. She has no idea about any of that but my experience doesnt count because im not a Soldier. Screw you and your ignorant thoughts. You take your lazy ass and go to Bootcamp and AIT and then take yourself over to Iraq. Then stay home while your husband is gone taking care of yalls kids and waiting for him to call, or worried that knock on the door might come. Have a baby without him there. You think just because you married a Soldier that makes you an Army Wife? No that is something you earn!! Im sorry you are no Army Wife and as far as i can see you never will be.
im 17 goin on 18. i graduate this year. and so does my boyfriend. the only problem to this is that he wants to go into the army. and i dont know what to expect. i adore him and he loves me. but all this is terrifying me. i need advice. i do not want to let him go. i just need to know how its like and what to expect. i hear good and bad stories about military. i just need at least one person to at least show me a clue of how its like. please and thank you. this is a very nice website. (:
My daughter is legally seperated from her husband who is currently active duty in the army. They are stationed in colorado springs, co. He is suppose to be deployed to Iraq soon but, tells my daughter one day he is going then he says he isn’t. He has gone out of his way to make things difficult for my daughter & grandaughters. my daughter tends to believe everything that comes out of his mouth & then it leaves her in bad situations. He told her if she let him file the taxes he would split the money so she could return home to Arizona & now he wont. He also told her if she gave him her car which they were making payments on he’d give her $5000. equity that came out of the car & he didn’t. I had to buy her a car to help her. She is only living on child support at this time. Is there anyway that she can seek assistance from the army to help her return home as she cannot afford it & I am now paying for a car & insurance & have no more money to help her.