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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who didn't cry when my husband was deployed. Yes I love him. Yes I missed him. But I knew he would be coming home. I never cried. Not once. I just knew that I had to get through one day at a time and that it would all be alright. Is it weird that I didn't cry? I hear wives all the time saying they were huge messes when there spouse was deployed. But I can't say that. I didn't become a mess. I just survived. I just did what I had to to make the days go by faster. I don't know I still feel weird because I never cried.
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Everyone shows emotion differently, doesnt make u a bad person or doesnt mean you dont love him any less. Sometimes wish I didnt cry and I dont always cry when he leaves. Things are handled, im not a mess and I make it through til he comes home. But sometimes I did cry myself to sleep when the kids were heathens, bad day at work , etc. Just sometimes too much to take in. I wouldnt worry too much. You love him, thats all you need.
i only cried a little and i was also pregnant so... i dont know. lol. but it doesnt make you a bad person. as long as you know you love him, youre just strong and probably very independant.
The only time I cried this deployment was when a mortar hit his position when we were on the phone, and I did not know if he had lived. He had. He was lucky, not everyone did that time. When I did not know if he was alive or dead, and knew that there had been KIA's, I was a mess. Otherwise, no. Of course, this was also his 3rd tour, and I've also been deployed before, so it's not as much of an unknown for me as it is for a lot of people, so it's kind of to be expected that I'd do fairly well with it.
I don't cry either. I miss him alot, but I try to use the time constructively--get some things done that I want to do, do some home improvements (for example he hates to paint, I love it) besides, I'm doubly busy because I have to do it all, so I don't have much time to mope!
Besides, I'm just so darn proud of him and happy we can do our part that I don't really mind deployments at all, and once they are over, I barely remember how long it was!!!!
There's something seriously wrong with you if you never cried.
shut up 1:35. what do u know?
How did you KNOW he would come home?
i didnt cry