Shavonne Matulevich

How to Cope when Your Husband Deploys: Story of a Marine Corps Wife Shavonne Matulevich

How To Cope When Your Husband Deploys follows Shavonne Matulevich; a United States Sailor and Marine Corps wife who has to manage everyday life while her husband is deployed. Shavonne has ideas about what the separation will be like, but reality steps in however, and opens her eyes to the Marine Corps side of the military and all the emotions that come with it. She has to adjust her feelings to deal with Darryl's stress and tension while he trains and prepares to leave. As the months go by, she begins to realize just how important her role as a Marine wife really is, and learns there is not only a responsibility to Darryl but to herself as well.