totally random thought..lol but I was just thinking about how DH wants to be a career airman...and then I thought I really cant imagine life after he retires..Im already completely used to this way of life and I love it...but after 20 years of him being in..how do you adjust?? lol I cant even imagine life not being a military wife..is that weird? anyone else feel this way? anyone else really enjoy the military life??
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I know what you mean, even though I have only been married for a year now miitary has been my life for the last 4 1/2 years, leaving active duty and becoming a reservist is challenging but I cant even imagine what my life will be like when hubby retires. Crap thats only in less than 12 years, im only 23. I dont know and to be honest I am going to stop thinking about it now. It's kinda depressing..........
It is kinda of weird if you think about what your life might be like after the military. I don't know if my DH wants to make this a career but he is staying in for at least 7 years more. I guess once your in it, you get used to it pretty quickly. It's almost like a different world if you think about it, LOL
DH's CO just retired (he was Activated Guard/Reserve) and he has no idea what to do now. While the Unit was state-side he would still show up on the one weekend a month, who knows what he's doing now that they're deployed. LOL. His wife is still in charge of our FRG and I can't imagine anyone replacing her!
I can imagine life as NOT being a military wife. I don't consider myself a military wife. We don't consider his career to be life... its just a part of life... its his job. We like to seperate military life from everyday life. I don't participate in unit activites (except this year I'm going to the x-mas party), I'm not friends with the unit wives (except I'm friends with other wives not attached to his unit) I don't really do anything on base... its just not my bag of chips.
i cant wait for my husband to be out of the military he is deployed and im just not as strong as you ladys it has been the hardest thing to be apart i cry non stop i feel like a part of me is missing. This will be are last time apart my husband will be done a few months after he gets back and i look forward to are family being complete again we have a new baby coming and i need him here to help raise are daughter and to never have to spend another holiday alone . But i am so thankful that you wives are so strong it s just not the life for me.
Well this is all new to me, but I realized how much we will be putting on the backburner for this. Our plan when he went in was to do just this for 4 years. So, I'm hoping that's still the plan and we will just do this temporarily. I don't thrive on being alone and it's been a rough transition(for both our kids and me). Plus I realized a lot of things and what direction I hope our life to go. I can imagine it because we've lived a normal life for the past 5 years. If my husband wants to stay in then I have something I will give up, having more kids. That is BIG for me because I always wanted more and I begged my husband to let us have more. I want more, he is content with our 2. So I'm thinking that might be a good thing to give up. I finally got my photography business established here and we'll be moving. We also dream of opening up our own sandwich shop someday. So this is just something to get us through, not something we planned to do career.
We have 5 more years until dh has 20 years in. We have bought a farm in Missouri, he can gt a good job there and my boys will be able to see their Grandparents.
Yes, it will be different seeing my dh every day, but i will get used to it. it will be different being able to call him. It will be strange for him to get holiday pay, but we will miss BAH. He will hopefully not be on call 24/7.
We will see. we have been counting down the years to 20. We know that he can retire from the Navy and then do 20 yrs for another organization and retire from it.
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on Nov. 26, 2009 at 12:06 AM