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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Military wives. [/quote]

Hard disagree. Life circumstances made it so that I was exposed to military culture/life intimately without being in the military.  Military wives have to pack up and move their entire families every 2-3 years, immediately adapt to the new location/culture (and help their kids assimilate), make new friends, find new resources, and generally make up the lifeblood of base activities and community, ALL with an embarrassingly small amount of support.  The nature of their husband's career make it so that they themselves are effectually prevented from developing their own careers, but their husbands and kids would be lost without them as a governing force.

I have more respect for military spouses than nearly any other group.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

+100

I was stunned to see military wives listed here. That person has no clue. None at all. I'm not a military spouse but have lived on a military base. People are clueless about how hard it is. [/quote]

To be fair, there are some of "those" military spouses who are all about the clout of their husbands title and throwing that around socially. I don't think the PP was referring to the typical military spouse. [/quote]

Some just are just more into it than others and it does consume their identity. I appreciate PPs responses because it is hard and truthfully, I hated it and regret it. I would not make the same choice again.  But I also didn’t revolve my life around the role of spouse “team” or base life.  Some women (in particular) love to do all the volunteering and entertaining and office support stuff.  Being a rank/role “wife” is their identity.  It has its part and it makes a difference to some people. I always resented that so many liberties were taken with my time and energy.  Some of these women are putting in full time hours for zero money and it’s wrong. We gave  up SO much money and so many opportunities over the years by me not working and not having a house that I actually can’t stand to be “thanked for my sacrifices “ because people have NO idea how much we screwed ourselves financially and personally for that damn career.  It was stupid. We all suffered for nothing. [/quote]

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