It’s not that we thought the film Sylvia would have us rolling in the aisles. We just never expected that the story of a suicidal poet would remind us of our own circumstances as “trailing spouses” at ...

Like most migrating academics, my husband relocated because of a job and, like most trailing spouses, I relocated because of him. We moved from a large Midwestern city, where I had a lucrative career, ...

When a woman left India for Canada to study and be with her now-husband, she didn't fully comprehend the challenges that come ...

For those of us who are trailing spouses or “accidental expats”—drawn abroad not necessarily for our own careers or sense of wanderlust but for a partner’s job, family or nationality—global life ...

My Weekend Journal colleague Russell Adams wrote on Friday about Susan Myers, a former investment banker who several years ago made an unlikely career switch she's now a Texas high-school football ...

My husband quit academe after almost two decades of teaching. The same week, I was tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor at Dickinson College. Our journey is common in higher ...