Introduction
I came up with the idea that I wanted to write about being a military significant other and the challenges that come with “being married to the military”. The idea has blossomed and flourished in more ways than I thought it was going to. Since my experience as a military significant other is different than others, I recruited the help of different military significant others everywhere. I am a reserve soldier married to active duty, both Army. I asked Army Girlfriends, Army Wives, Future Air Force Wives, Navy Wives, and everyone else between. All of our experiences have been different; they have been positive, negative, rewarding, and challenging. They have been everything we expected and everything we haven’t. They allowed us to see what truly matters and brush off the little things.
This idea to write about it has, like I said, grown. I will be making it a series of posts over the next few months with something different written every couple of weeks. They will be a collaboration of all our experiences. Through the deployments, the late work nights, the weeks in the field, the homecoming, the leaving, and the having them home. It will be the drama, the moving, relocating and starting over. It will be the raising the children.
My hope is to share with you the experiences we go through and how each one is different than the next.
Loving a military man is not hard. The distance is hard, the worry is hard, the sacrifices are hard. But loving him? That’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done
Life as we THINK we know it 