Military and Families

I am an active duty Marine who is married and for the most part it’s just a normal life, unless I’m in the field or deployed I go to work in the morning and come home in the evening like a regular job. My wife and I live in an apartment off base so it’s just like being a civilian with a greater sense of pride. Yes there are a lot of differences but you get used to it and it becomes your world. I think military wives and girlfriends are the strongest women in the world (the faithful ones that is) because they deal with us being gone for a few weeks on training ops then months on deployments and when we come home it’s life as usual. My wife is such a strong woman and without her love and support it would be a lot harder to deal with things, but at least I know that when I’m off base and home with her in my arms nothing going on in my career matters as much as she does. I think that service members who have supportive spouses have an easier time dealing with the stress of being in the military.