Research Article
Military Wives' Transition and Coping: Deployment and the Return Home
Table 1
Phases of deployment.
| Phase | Properties | Themes |
| News of deployment | Awareness | Emotional chaos | | | Making preparations | Deployment | Engagement | Taking the reins | | | Placing focus elsewhere | | Change and difference | Emotional and physical turmoil | | | Staying strong | | | Reaching out | After deployment | Time span | Absence makes the heart grow fonder | | Critical points and events | Reestablish roles |
|
|