Avoiding ‘Dark Pits of Yuck’: Connected Learning for Military Spouses

“We moved nine times in 14 years…It wore me down. Anything I started and developed on my own got taken away.”
— Joanna McGuffey, founder and CEO of Unconventional Works

I met Joanna in 2015 at Nucleus CoShare, a coworking office in Dayton, Ohio that serendipitously opened not long after we both moved there to accompany our service member spouses at their new duty locations. She was a seasoned Air Force spouse, having moved nine times in 14 years and I was brand new. Joanna told me that she joined the coworking office because she was “in a dark pit of yuck” after arriving in Dayton. I empathized with her. When we moved to Dayton, I was newly married, new to Ohio, and new to military life. I was also leaving behind my academic department and support network, where I had just achieved status as a doctoral candidate in sociology. Like many military spouses, I was terrified that I might lose my hard-earned professional identity. I was and remain committed to my wife’s service, but I was also afraid of what I might have to sacrifice in the process.

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