cover image Warrior Wife: Overcoming the Unique Struggles of a Military Marriage

Warrior Wife: Overcoming the Unique Struggles of a Military Marriage

Hillary Sigrist. WestBow, $5.99 e-book (112p) ISBN 978-1-5127-0640-6

Debut memoirist Sigrist reflects on her struggles as the wife of a former U.S. special operations sniper and provides encouragement for fellow Christian military wives in this thoughtful work. She is candid about the difficulties of being married to a military man but focuses on how the experience can strengthen her readers’ relationships both with their husbands and with God. Sigrist writes simply and intimately, as if talking to a best friend. She recognizes the singular hardships and often unacknowledged ways that military wives support their husbands and country. She also provides tips for dealing with deployments, PTSD, missed birthdays, and long-distance communication. Her advice is intended to comfort and provide fortitude to other military wives but is generally grounded in the idea that a military wife’s job is to support her husband. She contends that “God created woman to be a helper of man... and there is nothing more powerful to attend a man’s heart than to have the unwavering support of his woman.” Each chapter is structured around a particular issue specific to the military, but Sigrist’s guidance is applicable to any woman who strives for a marriage based on conservative Christian ideals. (BookLife)