The 5 stages of being a military wife

1. Denial- Well yeah, he’s in the Army but… it won’t be so bad! We will live off post and we’ll have our weekends…. It won’t be that different from him having a regular job. I can keep my job and the Army doesn’t have to be THE focus of our lives.

2. Anger – WTF? Still no BAH? Let me talk to your supervisor. What do you mean you can only talk to my husband? The waiting list for housing is HOW long? Great now another NSF because he had to work another 16 hour day and couldn’t get to the bank. We have to move where? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I don’t want to live THERE! in a WEEK? Man this Army stuff BLOWS.

3. Bargaining – Ok please just let him deploy AFTER Christmas/our child’s birthday/our anniversary ok? Let him be here for Christmas/our child’s birthday/our annivesary? I promise I’ll volunteer for FRG and won’t complain anymore about the million ways that the Army screws my family every single day. Just let him be here for Christmas/ our child’s birthday/our anniversary!

4. Depression – Doesn’t everyone keep a bottle of vodka or Prozac in one hand and a cell phone in the other, even when showering/running errands/sleeping while he’s deployed?

5. Acceptance –

Using “hooah” in any part of conversation. Buying a wall hanging/plaque/pillow that says “Home is where the Army sends you”. Referring to everyone as “Sir” or “Ma’am”, even the clerk at the bank, check out girl at the store, and your hairdresser. Saying “when” he deploys again, not “if”. Going into a public place and automatically standing in line patiently. Noticing your purse feels heavy and finding that you have started carrying around everything you need for dealing with the Army bureaucracy: military ID, husband’s paperwork, orders, POA, games, books, a snack, water, a cell phone, and a mini bottle of liquor. or 20.

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Haha, love this! 

that's awesome!! thanks for sharing and it's soooo true lol 

Noticing your purse feels heavy and finding that you have started carrying around everything you need for dealing with the Army bureaucracy: military ID, husband’s paperwork, orders, POA, games, books, a snack, water, a cell phone, and a mini bottle of liquor. or 20


lmao love the liquor bottle part. 

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love this 

Lol yup! Repeat 4 and 5 as necessary...hahaha 

Funny =) Here's the ABC's of being a military wife =)

A is for attacking the phone everytime it rings. Even if it means sleeping with the handset or nearly careening off the highway trying to reach your phone in your purse on the floor...in case it is your soldier calling.

B is for boxes. Packing them, unpacking them, shipping them, receiving them, using them to store precious letters... An Army Wife handles a lot of boxes.

C is for cheering your head off when your soldier finally comes home from that LOOONNNGGG deployment!!!

D is for deployments, and the deployments that extend.

E is for the Excitement you feel when you know he is coming very soon after being away for a LONGGGGG time!!

F is for the friendships that come and go due to moving every three years, and for those that last a lifetime no matter what the distance.

G is for the Good friends you will meet despite knowing them for a short span of time.

H is for the helpful hands that come when they are needed.

I is for IRAQ, the nastiest 4 letter word we know!

J is for how you JUMP for JOY when homecoming comes.

K is for Kitchen where you prepare gourmet snacks and scrub and scrub, just to keep your mind occupied.

L is the love you have for your soldier.

M is for the marriage that survive the struggles that come with being a Army wife.

N is for Naughty time when "daddy" gets home!

O is for OPSEC- learn it- know it- live by it.......

P is patience! God knows you need it....

Q Is for the Questions you have to deal with every day. "When is he coming home?" "Will he get to come home for Christmas?" "Does he plan on getting out after he comes back?" "Why did he re-enlist?" and....

Q is for spending Quality time with your loved one....taking as much as you can get before they are gone for a week, a month or year.

R is for RnR of course! With all these dang deployments, families LIVE for RnR!

S is for the sacrifice . You will soon learn to live without. Live without your SO home on holidays, birthday, anniversary's, pregnancies, your child's childhood....all for the "Good of the Army".

T is for the time you have with him while he is home.

U is for the UGLY brown briefs we have to see our husbands wear!

V is for the variety of different places you will go!

W IS FOR THE WORRIES.......WHERE IS HE......WHEN IS IT GONNA BE OVER...........

X is for the eXtra hugs and kisses you try to squeeze in right before they get on the plane...

Y is for the yawns caused by all of the late night phone calls or IM sessions, the long days, the sleepless nights and the hot nights spent with your man when neither of you gets any sleep.

Z is for the time ZONES that we have to count to figure out what time is it where ever they are deployed or stationed at while they are away. 

So true and it is funny that after 17 years I still sometimes regress back even if only for 5 minutes!!! 

Ha ha. Both posts are great. Anyone else hub skip the ugly brown undies??!! Mine just wears those sexy boxer briefs. 

So true and it is funny that after 17 years I still sometimes regress back even if only for 5 minutes!!!

me too! been doing this with hubby for 21 years (and an army brat to boot)