Thank you for your enduring love and never ending sacrifice to your families; the work you do is truly amazing and appreciated. We thank you for keeping the home front going always. We love you and cherish your service and sacrifices💗❣️
You can be anything you want to be they say, but can you actually be anything you want to be? I’ve had this idea of sharing my personal experience as a military spouse a long time ago and did you ask what has held me back? A lot; the uncertainties of whether or not it would resonate with people out there, is it even allowable for a military wife to be talking about her experience? No one had felt the need to go out with her experience, why should I? with my current schedule, would I have the time to develop content to post as regularly as is required of this type of writing? While I entertained this thoughts, doubts and concerns, my personal experience particularly the most difficult of them endured and I hated not having to tell this tales with the hope of helping a new, naïve and helpless military wife. I've had senior officer’s wives struggle with remembering exact details of their experiences and I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be much easier to have written all of these up somewhere? Realistically I know the answer but I couldn’t stop asking the same questions in my mind whenever I had such conversations. Truth is, I would hate to not remember clearly some of the things I consider spectacularly impactful in this journey. I consider the opportunity to put my thoughts, experience and aspirations out there a rare privilege. I have often heard military wives say ‘In my next life I won’t marry a soldier’. First of all, I am not sure if they really mean this or if it is a way of venting out their frustrations in those moments. Secondly, most of the women I’ve heard say these words are truly in love with their husbands, so I am certain it is a momentary thing. However, because different women in different locations and at different times have said this, maybe it is true that if there is a second life where marriage would be a thing, they actually would not marry a soldier. Becoming anything, you hope to be as a military wife is hard for obvious reasons; you are mostly a solo parent with all the incidences and obligations that come with the territory- school runs, hospital, church, market stops, everything is squarely on you. There are hardly any breaks from this and you think to yourself...
