Your appliances are evil and are always watching, timing their demise for maximum chaos. Even the garage door opener.
I'm pretty sure I posted on AW once asking for suggestions on how to fix my garage door which was stuck closed. Some percussive maintenance took care of it, thankfully.
Speaking from a spouse perspective, OP, but regarding the question of how well a spouse can maintain a career, it's a solid, "it depends" and any other answer is kind of bullshit. For the first ~10 years of Spouse's career and our marriage, we were in one place. 4 tours--FRS, JO squadron, FRS instructor, SWTI. I was able to get established, work my way up, and finally have a Big Girl career. Then... Japan. Not something was asked for or wanted or saw coming. Fine... I'll take 3 years off. Except after those 3 years came... Germany. Cool. That's recoverable. Except after that came... Japan--once again not wanted, requested, or suspected. All in all, I was out of the working world (other that part time English teaching in Japan, which was a phenomenal experience but does nothing for my resume) for a decade. We got back to the US and while I could have found a job a server or barista, and would have if necessary, finding another Big Girl job was pretty much impossible. I was worse off than a new college grad, as far as I could tell. We've been back about 2 years. I haven't worked a paid job since. And that really fucking sucks. We don't have kids. We never wanted kids. I was a career person. We loved being DINKS; the SINK lifestyle is still great, but finding ways to spend my time that are fulfilling can be a challenge.
We briefly considered a geo-bach situation for Japan 2.0. I could have moved to the States, gotten an apartment and a job, and visited a few times a year. But it wasn't the right choice for us.
I wouldn't make any different choices if I had them to do over again with the benefit of hindsight, but it has definitely been hard.
Sometimes, you end up doing 10 years/4 tours in the same place and your spouse's career will be similar to what it would have been if you were a civilian. (Although, if you have kids and she is doing 100% of the child-minding while you are deployed, that can be a factor.) And sometimes, you end up bouncing around overseas for a decade, and nearly any career she has is going to be affected, if not downright extinguished. And sometimes, you do both of those.
Even a medical doctor or PA is going to struggle if you end up overseas. Yes, there are military hospitals or clinics but no, they aren't often hiring US civilians. School teacher is one of the very few that can somewhat reliably work overseas, and even that may not work in some locations. (I'm thinking of Bahrain, for example, which has an International School, not a DOD school, so I'm not sure what their hiring looks like. Or you end up at a NATO base or something like that.)
Bottom line is that the spouse needs to be prepared for those scenarios and ready to accept them, or you both need to be prepared for 2-3 years, or more, living apart (and consider what what would feel like if you have young children who you end up seeing for ~3-4 weeks a year.) If it doesn't happen, be pleasantly surprised. But if you and they can't stomach the idea, then it's probably pretty risky to join your lives in holy matrimony while those things are possibilities.
