Given the headlines that I’ve been reading over the last couple of years, I’ve had lots of opportunities to wonder about how difficult it must be for all the military wives that are here, at home, wondering how their husbands are doing overseas. Of course, there are many men with wives overseas who are in the same predicament, but it’s mostly because I have a friend that is married to an Army Lieutenant and she has a hard time when he’s gone that I’ve been thinking about military wives. I don’t think that they met on a military dating site, but I do know that my friend often recommends that her girlfriends check them out.

I don’t know why she would want to suggest to anyone that they should lead the kind of life she’s living. Suggesting to her friends that they start seeing military men when she’s having so much trouble seems a bit funny, but I know that she loves her husband a great deal and wishes that her friends could feel the same thing she does. I guess that I see her more in the hard times than when times are good. When things are bad, of course, they’re very, very bad. It’s hard to be away from someone at the best of times, but when you know that their life is in danger, this is incredibly hard for all military wives.

They have a good deal of communication with each other. He calls at least 3 times a week. No matter how long he has to wait in line he calls her, even if it means he only gets a couple hours of sleep because he waited so long in line. I don’t know how many times she has cut conversations with me short because she’s thinking he’s about to call, but I don’t mind. I know how important it is to her.

When he’s home, or on leave, their time together is made just that much more sweet by the absence. They spend all their waking hours together and, honestly, I’ve never seen two people so in love. Luckily, she spares me the details of their romantic escapades, but she still doesn’t talk about much else for quite a while after he has gone back.

I’m not sure that I could live that kind of life, but I’m sure glad that there are people that do. I’m proud of her for being so very much in love and I’m proud of him for doing a job that very few people in this world have the ability to do. I hope that he comes home safely every time and I know that when he does, she will always be there to meet him with open arms and a loving embrace.

Here’s to the men that defend our freedom and to the military wives that keep them coming home.

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