Well one day a long time ago in a far off state many many bases ago a couple met, fell in love, got married. Like most wives starting out, she didn’t know really what her husband did and when he said he slept on the hard ground and that he went to work at 4 am and couldn t just call in sick, she thought he was kidding. When he said he had to leave for a month and would not be able to call or write because of training, a week after they were married, she started to wonder about the life she had just signed up for. Yep she was in the ranks, in the ARMY, Not as a soldier who goes over seas but as a ARMY WIFE. The one left behind not only to write the letters and tend to the children, but to run the household almost as a single parent. This is not a easy life and not one many would choose, but to those of us that have it is a blessing to be fortunate to know the people who live and strive every day for our country, the ones that give everything, they do not seek glory and they do not seek praise and are never going to be rich. But they are wealthy to be surrounded by the people that make up our armed forces. Much to her surprise she would never want to leave the life of a ARMY WIFE. It has it’s ups and downs but it is home, no madder how many places you’ve hung your hat.

Now for how to survive as a ARMY WIFE ,

First you have to be able to make it on your own!!! With out family, with out your husband, Just you and the child or children if you have them.

Second You must learn to put trust in strangers just because they are associated with the army as well. Their have been many times my friends husband will come over to mow the lawn just because… and my husband will do the same for their wives when they are away.

Third you must give up on a schedule because their will never be one. Your husband may be home at 2 pm or at 9pm just depending on the way the wind blows. He may be gone for a year maybe just a few days. When the ARMY says were leaving tomorrow add a week when they say they’ll be home next week add 2 more weeks to that. This is a life played by the minute and ever changing.

Forth you must be able to move, if you don’t know how to pack trust me you will learn.When You are finely down to unpacking the last box, a year later, and it is finally unpacked you will move again with in a few weeks.

The Fith thing and the most important, you can’t blame your husband for the armies desion. If they say he has to go, he has to go, he dosen’t have a choice. I see to many new wives fall victim to the thought their husband dosn’t love them because they leave. Well they do love you and trust me all they want is to stay home with you forever, but they truly do not have a choice, to go or not to go. So chin up he will be home soon and just don’t give him anything to worry about at home, because if their ever was a supper women, You are it if you are a ARMY WIFE.

WE are a community that is unlike any other. It’s like being back in time when people actually talked to their neighbors. Where families actually have values. Where we miss our husbands untill they are home and then they drive us nuts till they leave, but we would never trade them for anything. It may be lonely at times, it may be hard, you may want to give up. But life is never easy, and maybe the life of a soldiers wife is hardest of all.

I personly take it as it comes, my friends ask me how I do it. All I can say is I love him, I love my life, their is nothing better then being a ARMY WIFE.