As the memoir of a military marriage and its ultimate dissolution, Heather Sweeney illuminates some of the specific challenges of military life for military spouses for those who can only glimpse this world from the outside. The frequent moves that were a central feature of her multi-year marriage to a Navy man with whom she had two children might sometimes have made the relationship more challenging than it otherwise would have been, but her relatively frequent separations from him during their marriage seem to have been instrumental in making it last as long as it did, so mismatched were the two. She details their efforts to coparent as their marriage deteriorated without creating more suffering than necessary for the kids as well as her own search for an identity separate from that of a military wife. It's easy to root for her as she finds her way, and her writing is smooth and clear, but one senses that her overall story isn't notable for its uniqueness so much as it is for the fact that such experiences in military marriages, if seldom explored to this extent for the larger public, are likely all too common.