144: Part 2: Jenna Griffith: Military and First Responder Wife Provides Hope for the Unsung Heroes

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Murph interviews Jenna Griffith, a military spouse and advocate for the unsung heroes of military and first responder families. They discuss Jenna's background, her rebellious teenage years, her journey into motherhood, marriage, addiction, divorce, and finding love again. Jenna shares her experiences as a military spouse, the challenges she faced while her husband was deployed, and the impact it has on relationships. She shares her personal journey of healing and finding happiness, and the work she does in helping others through providing support to military and first responder spouses.

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0:00.0	And the So from the time that your husband came home from the hospital until a couple years later when you start to see a little bit of change was he still
0:24.2	being deployed yes and then we're talking overseas so we're talking combat situations
0:30.9	and so then when he would come home was he at home or was he still on the battlefield or?
0:35.6	Well, he was at home, but he was out, you know, he was a big fisherman hunter so he would disconnect in that way and I just
0:49.8	remember fighting a lot about that like you're finally home and you're not home. You know, how many times have you heard that with a service member or their family just like you're home and you're not even home? So he did a lot of things like that like isolating himself in that way just because he wanted to have a calm environment.
1:10.6	So he's home but he's not home and you know that believe or not it happened with our
1:17.5	family as well when you're especially when we're overseas and dangerous
1:20.7	situations so we're somewhat familiar with what you're talking about.
1:25.0	How did this continue to manifest itself to get to the point where, you know, you got some issues here?
1:32.0	Well... you know you got some issues here well I was really and
1:36.8	progressing situation so once we said hey you know we're gonna do hey, you know, we're going to do this together.
1:44.1	It's going to, we're going to get through this, you know.
1:48.4	I saw a true and excellent understanding that that's exactly what we were, what we were.
1:55.0	And, um, as forward, it didn't really stop there.
2:01.0	So, I mean, I don't,'t honestly don't know how far we made it before it
2:08.2	it wasn't working but it just got to where it was that's what I really started seeing more of the behavioral issues
2:16.4	A lot of it was just very it wasn't ever aggressive for me and like he was never physical with me or anything like that.
2:25.0	He would be physical with himself or he would go into this like, I don't know the right word,
2:31.0	but he would just go into this,
2:33.2	you know, he's a piece of crap and why should anyone care about him kind of
2:36.9	of things.
2:37.9	And we definitely had a lot of scary nights because of that.
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