300. Returned Missionaries Awkwardness is normal, and how to understand it.
This was in LDS Living, December 2, 2014. It is really interesting! I've seen it in all 4 of our children and some of our grandchildren who all have been on missions. It is real, and this article gives some great ideas on how to adjust to it. We even had it as couple missionaries! Psychologist Explains Why RM Awkwardness Is Normal DANIELLE BECKSTROM - BYU professor Ed Gantt answers some of the most common questions pestering returning missionaries and explains why the post-mission "awkward phase" is actually quite normal. "She's still adjusting." "He's caught in that awkward, post-missionary phase." "She just needs a little more time to normalize." We've all heard these comments about return missionaries. Many of us have probably made them. And many of us were probably the missionaries being talked about. There's no doubt about it, return missionaries carry with them that lingering feeling of something