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Summary
Families must balance closeness and distance in boundaries with a deployed family member in order to maintain a relationship and cope with the separation in healthy ways. Family members and Reservists were interviewed about behaviors that either promoted or limited Reservists' involvement in family life. Generally, besides separated couples, family members worked hard to keep themselves and their children connected with the Reservist during deployment.
Citation
Marini, C. M., MacDermid Wadsworth, S., Kwon, Y. I., Pagnan, C. E. (2016). Family Members as Boundary Managers: Behaviors That Promote and Limit Service Members' Involvement in Daily Family Life. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 2808-2819. doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0443-4