I would never consider myself worn. I don’t even think I technically qualify as middle-aged (don’t correct me whether I am wrong there). But,in military spouse years, I am considered to be “seasoned, and ” piece of the older generation of spouses who have been around a while,and who say things like “I remember when…” in everyday conversation. I’m not even sure when it happened–when I crossed the line from being a fresh spouse to being a seasoned spouse. All I know is that one day, I walked into the commissary and the fresh recruits in the frozen food isle suddenly looked more like my son than they looked like me. They were babies. And me? I was seasoned. You know you’re a seasoned military spouse when: You’re the only one at the FRG assembly who has been through a deployment before the pre-Skype era You say things like “I..
Source: militaryfamily.org