Dear Mollie, HELP!! I am dreading this year’s Christmas gift exchange. My mother-in-law gives me the worst gifts. We have been married for four years now and we get stranger and stranger gifts each birthday and Christmas. One year I got an old sweater she had previously worn, then a rabbit fur muff (we were […]
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Ask Mollie: Deployment and Insecurities
Dear Mollie, I am a fresh new army wife and I am going through my husband’s first deployment. This is kind of odd but I need advice from another military wife. How do I deal with my husband’s thoughts about me cheating on him? I don’t go anywhere, I have two babies and that’s the […]
Ask Mollie: Being More Active on Base
Dear Mollie, My husband and I moved to California in November of last year. I’ve been trying to make some new friends but we only have one car right now. We live an hour from base and he, obviously, takes the car when he goes to work. I’ve started talking to a few girls on […]
Ask Mollie: No Friends Before Deployment
Dear Mollie, My husband is a corpsman and we are stationed at a Marine Corps base on the East Coast. We’ve been here for a while now, but I’m still having trouble making friends. I only have about 3 friends. I’ve noticed that a lot of Marine wives won’t talk to me because I am […]
Ask Mollie: Infidelity
Dear Mollie, My fiancée is out in 29 Palms, CA right now; and we are both from Iowa. He just got into his MOS. So we won’t get to see each other for a while. Before he graduated from MCT, I ended up getting cheated on. And I’ve talked to so many Marine/Military girls; and […]