Now that Tom & I are going through a deployment, I really feel like I'm earning the title of Military Wife. Before if someone asked if I liked being in the military I would always reply with a, 'Yes, I love the life it has given us' but would always think in the back of my head that I really didn't know what the military life was about. We hadn't been through a deployment for longer than 6 weeks, Tom had never been to a combat zone, he has been at home for the first year and a half of our marriage, etc. But now, I feel like I can give a true and honest opinion. I'm living 6 months without my husband. I'm standing on my own two feet with my head high. Even saying that it doesn't sound like THAT big of a deal. But when I put someone else in that circumstance, like say my sister's husband was going to be away for that long it- changes the way I feel about it. Like holy camoly that's so long! How is she going to do it! I've created a unique bond with other wives in the squadron. I've read stories about other wives being in the delivery room when their family was too far away and the husband is gone. I can see some of these women in my delivery room. I can see them stepping in for the family that couldn't be there.
Even after this deployment- all 6 months of it- I still will love the military life and what it has given us.
Semper Fedelis
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6 months isn't too bad. I'm thankful I'll come home that soon. Good thing there's no delivery-room in the immediate future!
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