the non-working working accompanying spouse

So you think you are a 'non-working accompanying spouse'? Gave up a job, a career for this move?

There is no such thing as a non-working accompanying spouse. Sure, you may not go to an office. You no longer get a financial pay check. 

But you are working. You tackle innumerable tasks critical to the success of this assignment. Without you, the expat assignment wouldn't work the way it is. Period. 

You are the 'non-working working accompanying spouse'.

As an organization, be sure you are supporting your accompanying spouses. If you want your global mobility programs to be successful, you need them.