 When I married Jamie, I thought I knew, right, we all think we know. And then 9-11 happened. He just said, you know, I'm not getting out of the Army now, right? And I said, yeah, I know. I think at some point it was, for me, the 2012 deployment that I just had a really hard time. I started to see a therapist and she had suggested starting a journal and writing in a journal and with my theater background I was like, you know what? I'm just, I'm gonna write a play. Spouses in Indiana, I did phone interviews. I interviewed spouses in Colorado where I was living at the time and we just kind of took elements of a lot of those stories and then put them together into the five scenes that make up the play itself. Once we put a band in place and a full cast and an audience I think we all realized that we had something really special. We're a proud military family. I'm so proud of his service. I'm proud of his commitment. But sometimes you just need to be able to say, this is hard and this is not what I thought it was gonna be and I felt like, for me, I just needed to say, hey, does anyone else think this is hard? Do we all, are we all just feeling like, oh no, we got this? No problem. Oh, like, no. And as I talked to more and more spouses I realized, oh, everybody feels this way. It's just nobody really wants to say it.