Married to the Military

Summary of the last 2 years

I'm going to start my journey from when I met my husband.  He had just enlisted in the Air Force.  We started out as friends, but over months of being together we realized that there was more there than just friendship.  Five months after we met he left for BMT. I didn't know were our relationship was going to go from there.  We knew we loved each other, but as we all know, love isn't always enough.  Of course, when someone you love leaves for the military you always hear the bad.  People saying that they are cheating, it's not going to work, you can't trust him.  I heard it all the time.  I can't say that it wasn't hard to hear.  But, I knew how much we loved each other.  I had faith in our relationship.  After many letters back and forth, I decided I was going to go to his BMT graduation.  Luckily I did, on Feb. 13, 2010, I became engaged.  I couldn't believe after 7 months I was engaged. Logically, it seemed that it was so soon, but I knew in my heart their wasn't anyone else for me.  On July 10, 2010 I married my best friend.

What I didn't know was I not only married my best friend, but also the military.  I up and moved to Mississippi since my husband was in tech school.  Unfortunately, he was not allowed to stay with me during the week.  So here I was a new married woman, in a new place, no car, no friends and a weekend husband.  We made the best of it and enjoyed the time that we had.  Before that we only seen each other periodically, so anytime was better than no time.  We were in Mississippi for 5 months.  Then we were moving again, PSCing, as the military likes to call it.  We were relocated to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma.  

So here we are just celebrating our 2 year anniversary.  We have had a hard road at times, between getting to know each other on a married level, moving twice, missing family and friends, deployment scares and family deaths.  I must say that through all of it, the military has always been there for us.  My husband works a typical 7:30-4:30 job, with great benefits and is home every night.  I'm very thankful for this since we are expecting our first child!