Thank you, Jennifer (and Dave) for sharing this... I feel really connected to your (blog)post... It´s so true...
Life in the Service for the so-called "trailing-spouses" is definitely not easy, but not at all, impossible and/or unbearable...
I´ve heard/read many stories, talked to several spouses, like myself, working and not working while the partner is, as you mentioned, "at the English-speaking work bubble" (not in a bad way, at all!). I´ve been collecting experiences, tales, comments, shared advice on how and how not to, raise multicultural/multilingual children...
There are benefits, for sure, and you nicely mentioned them along your post. There are several challenges, obviously. Cultural barriers, language difficulties, just to cite a few. But I´m a firm believer that, if one is willing to take up on the challenge, at least, there´ll be some `motion´, some movement, if not any progress... Deciding to isolate oneself from the expat/US community should never be an option, but I understand some do it - and they´ve got their own reasons to do so...

Thanks again for sharing your experiences and for the very well written post.
Kind regards from another ´traveling family in the FS´.

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