Anonymous wrote:I read this forum and I think back to my own mother. She never did seem to whine or complain about the trials of being a wife and mothers. She took it all on without complete and did most things with aplomb. She was a military spouse who also had her own career, and could handle just about anything around the house and didn't need my father there to get it done. In fact, she spent two years home alone with two kids and held down a job while my father did two tours overseas in combat zones. She was grateful for every day she had with my father, and recognized that when he was not at home he was out earning the money that made virtually everything in our lives possible. When he left the service for civilian life but kept flying for the Air Force Reserve, she recognized that the weekends he was gone were paying for college for all three of us kids.

There seem to be so many people posting such hateful anti-husband things on these threads who do not really realize how good they have it. Whatever happened to the American pioneer woman who could birth babies while crossing deserts and fighting off hostile Indians, put down a homestead on the prairie, help harvest the crops and raise the kids at the same time. Have we all become a nation of whining, entitled bitches? Our foremothers would cringe.