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    Rediscover the Strength of Your Marriage

    Service and first responder lifestyles challenge relationships. We can help.

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    Our tested TACK-F curriculum and support provide the tools to help couples on their reconnection journey.

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Our Services Are NEEDED

Service life is something less than 1% of the population will ever understand with lived experience.

Repeated exposure to trauma, unpredictable schedules, and high pressure day-to-day life create overload with emotional and physical separation, couples land in crisis. Warriors and spouses who help everyone else get out of their worst moments, have nowhere to turn for theirs.

They want their marriage to work. They want to serve each other. Without the right tools for the high pressure, ever-changing terrain of their lives, hope dwindles, suicidal ideation and even tragically, suicide itself increase.

We exist to help service couples by empowering them. As Chris said, “Service members don’t want a hand out. They need a hand up.”

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  • We’re working with Baylor University to create a community of coaches specially trained to meet the needs of military and first responders.

  • We cultivate hope. Where one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. Help us provide a “hand up” to our military and first responder couples.

  • We give service members and their spouses the tools they need to not only survive but thrive in life while serving.

  • The Army did a study that showed over 80% of service member suicides were relationship-related.

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founder:

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As Executive Director, Taya Kyle continues the life-changing and life-saving work of helping service members and spouses save themselves and their families.

Our Mission

Service Marriage Strong

Military and first responder careers ask the impossible of couples.

It asks them to do the mission of peace with a nervous system calibrated for violence. The mission of parenthood with the kit bag of a door kicker. The mission of marriage with the mindset of someone whose job has depends on their ability to compartmentalize, suppress and move on.

TACKF understands the terrain. We meet warriors (spouses and service members) where they are by providing tools for success in the mission at home, too.

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Gary Sinise Foundation
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We are proud to have the support of the American Sniper Brand. Colton Kyle continues his father's legacy while building is own running the tactical brand “American Sniper” and proudly stands for the same values as he did: God, country, and family by donating a portion of all proceeds to TACKF.

Our Sponsors helps couples reconnect and heal

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  • "I am a much better husband and father than I ever was a sniper."

    Chris Kyle

  • “I wish we had the tools we needed to overcome the obstacles of service life much earlier. We could have healed, and helped each other heal, faster which would have given us more joy in the years we were given.”

    Taya Kyle

  • “ We feel like we’re a part of a group who really wants us to succeed and has given us the tools to do so. ”

    Josh and Traci, a first responder couple

  • A friend of Taya’s once said, “Taya, you will have friends who will side with you no matter what. I will be better than that, I will be a friend to your marriage and that is the very best friend anyone can have.”

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Research reinforces the power of strengthening the service marriage
Research reinforces the power of strengthening the service marriage

New research conducted in collaboration with Baylor University’s Diana R. Garland School of Social Work reinforces the impact of investing in military and first responder marriages. Couples participating in TACKF’s relationship enrichment program experienced significant improvements in resilience, intimacy, communication, coping, relationship adjustment, and marital happiness, demonstrating that when we strengthen the marriage, we have the potential to strengthen the entire family.

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Our Why
Our Why

This month we pause in remembrance of an American hero, Chris Kyle (April 8, 1974 – February 2, 2013). Prior to Chris’ untimely passing, he was developing his vision for programs to support military and first responder communities. Today, we know these programs to be the lifeblood of the Taya and Chris Kyle Foundation.

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September Reflection
September Reflection

During the month of September, we paused to focus on our service families. This is a stressful time of the year: kids are back in school, we are getting used to new schedules, and the holidays are right around the corner. It is all too easy to start feeling overwhelmed by the challenges of day-to-day life, to start feeling like we are not meeting the mark, or to start feeling unseen and unappreciated.

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Love in bloom
Love in bloom

Nature and life - they echo each other. In marriage we have times of dormancy where we need to be quiet and repair, preparing for a new stage of growth. It’s almost spring - making us think of what we can do to ensure our best growth is ahead of us. 

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