I can not express to you all how impressed and in awe of my wife I am. I do not want to be cliche and state that everyone should have one....but they should if they are like mine. I could not and would not be here today without her. Through all of the "hurdles" she has always been there. Giving me the proper jabs and the caressing when necessary. Somehow, she knows which to give and when. You think that means we are right for one another? I am not questioning it, just wondering.....I know we are right for each other.
Anyway, I am watching this news show and someone is talking about recession proofing your marriage. Are you kidding???? I think about some of the people I have served with wives, and then some of the women I knew in the military, the wife of my best man and my wife and I ask....how the hell after what we, the Navy and the country has put them through, could a recession end a marriage. Is marriage so fragile now that a lack of money can end it. If this is the case then all of those wives of guys like me need a big round of applause and pretty much whatever else they want. If recession is a stress on a marriage, can anyone really imagine the added weight of military service on a marriage.
Why isn't there a news article on War proofing your marriage. Has the American population gotten so focused on the recession and failing marriages that we have forgotten about our war and our men and women?????
To all those marriages that have survived, surviving or will survive this and any other war that will inevitably come, Hoo Yah, Hoorah, Oorah, Bravo Zulu, good job, congratulations and most of all, Thank you.
3 comments:
Thank you, Philip.
What a nice post! You've got yourself a special lady and it sounds like you know it. She's got a good man in you for writing this.
amen, Philip! I can just imagine how hard Sarah works at her marriage and I know that she would say that you are her match and do the same for her. And I think it must be said, it has to be said, that we are asking soooo much of you. I have now one brother, and two cousins returned from Iraq. One of my cousins is also married to an army guy who is still there. He'll miss the birth of his son next month. My brother returns well... different, after everything that he went through, and yet here are two more marriages that are working through this war. And what is America doing to help? We need social support for these families - financial, emotional, and any other way we can provide it to them. In my mind, soldier's families are soldiers too.
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