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Army life as a military wife....just as I see it...nothing more, nothing less.
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To Lauren
The lifestyle may be different, but I am no less a military wife, and my husband is no less a "real" soldier. And right now my husband is an active duty soldier, the same as any enlisted at this point. I am a little ticked, yes. And anyone who says that soldiers are more or less "real" because they are enlisted or guard are retards and deserve to be horse whipped and quartered.
Thanks. And no that doesn't make any sense. You are stereo typing the guard just like everyone else. |
Posted: 4:17 PM, Sep. 4, 2005 |
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from Lauren
actually, it does make sense.
stop being so dramatic and defensive.
no one is saying anything about your husband being any less of a soldier or about any of the guard soldiers being not real soldiers.
All I said was that the lifestyle is different. I said that because it is. My best friend was engaged to a guard soldier and my neighbor (back home, for 5 years) went from regular Army to guard... the lifestyle is very different. I'm not trying to knock you or say that you are not impacted at all by the "military lifestyle" BUT I was just stating the fact that there is a big difference between living on-post as opposed to living in the real world.
It is just a thing, you should count yourself lucky that your life has not been completely uprooted like us on-post families have.
I'm not sure if you are still just mad at someone questioning your marriage or if you are reading the words on the page wrong... but I really don't think I'm deserving of your attitude and anger. |
Posted by Anonymous at 5:02 PM, Sep. 4, 2005 |
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| all I have to say is that if my mom, my friends, and everything I know wasn't over a thousand miles away from me right now, i'd be going through this deployment a lot easier. my husband is active duty and this is his second deployment. in 4 years of marraige i've seen him less than half. Our son was born while he was gone last time, and my husband came home to a 4 month old. The last time he deployed I immediately went back to florida. Having my family around (even though i was sleeping on their couch with my at the time 2 year old and six months pregnant) was so much better than being here. Being a stay at home mom you don't tend to get out and make a lot of friends. I am now facing cancer, I can't leave because I can't waste the time it would take to transfer the medical to another region, I have no one here but my kids, and I'm losing my mind. In that respect, I think us active duty wives do have things harder. However, we live in a town where everyone understands what we are going through. I read an article today about the reservists and how much they give up when they deploy. At least when our guys go their pay increases and we know what to expect with our finances. I can't imagine depending on a certain income and then having it taken away, or a business lost because he's not here to run it. Basically we all make sacrifices. The pure fact that there is an arguement as to who is more real is appalling. We all have to suffer the time without the people in our lives who mean the most to us. We all worry about them with everything in us. We all hang on that last phone call, cause we know that means he's okay. And we all need each other to help get us through this. |
Posted by Anonymous at 1:20 AM, Oct. 9, 2005 |
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