I never ever considered myself a maiden in distress.

I wasn't the maiden in distress.

I don't sit around waiting for a phone call.

I'm very independent and I, you know, I don't sit around thinking,

oh, I need my husband to understand what's going on.

I guess, you know, we're equal.

We need each other. And after October

7th, I really, really needed him to make sense of it for me. But it's like me being left behind

and him doing what he wants to do, which is not something I need or want.

Hey, listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, we're continuing our series of wartime diaries, which is an attempt to collect

slivers of life during these difficult days.

So we talk a lot about the home front during this war.

The home front, as in what goes on here in Israel,

as opposed to what happens on the battlefield, in the streets and alleyways of Gaza. But of course

there's also the home front, like the home front, and there are many, many different kinds of

home fronts.

Some are stoic, others less so.

Some are somehow managing.

Others, not at all.

Our producers Anat Korol Gordon and Mitch Ginsberg sat down with Alisa Razz Melzer,

whose 50-year-old husband Amiyad volunteered to go

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