I am really glad my husband is getting out of this unit before it deploys. I have been most terrified of deployments, and I feel like he just keeps missing them. Not good for him since he would like to deploy, but I am happy in silence about it.

Not everyone who deploys gets shot at. And not everyone in the military deploys. That's a silly thing to think.

So you all know those little Christmas town scenes you can buy anywhere? The local dollar store has a set and I want to get one soooo bad. My husband and I both love them and want one for our home and this would be the perfect starter set. I want to buy it already but it's only November, but I'm scared to buy it too late. Yes a silly problem but this will be our first Christmas married and most likely at our first base. I'd love to surprise him with it under the Christmas tree :)

Not a military wife, but liked reading here. My brother is a Marine. These confessions help me understand SIL's point of view. We don't get along well but I'm trying to be more open to what is a struggle due to the lifestyle they lead.

I'm separated from my husband and have been for 6 months, in that time I've been a single Mom without help from anyone. After yet another sleepless night (and I do mean sleepless, I was up until 6 a.m. and got a 2 hour nap)I can't help but feel hateful towards my ex that he is only a parent when it's convenient. He doesn't see these sleepless nights, or sick days.. He gets every easy part of life handed to him on a silver platter. While I'm working a swing shift job, with a 1 year old (who has an ear infection) on zero sleep and can hardly pay my bills. Who can blame me for being bitter..

I feel that any woman that is " depressed" and "cant find any meaning in life" because there husbands dont appreciate them or even love them any more are...pathetic. Mean, but thats how I feel. Being suicidal and putting your entire self worth into one person is just silly. What about kids, friends, work, family, hobbies? If your feeling like this, please seek therapy, its free, and will help figure out the REAL issues behind your problem.

My SIL's have hurt me tremendously over the past few years. Now they want to act like none of it ever happened... I want to just forget it as well, but I'm hurt and don't know how to let it go and move forward.

So my brother is back from his 4th tour of the Middle East and all my SIL can talk about is baby-making and getting her new kitchen. No one in the family wants to hear about making a little brother for Emma or the new Viking appliances she's "earned" - Ick.

I still don't get the girls who wear club dresses and heels to pick their husbands up in (from the field/training it even deployment!) in the morning time and in the dirt/rocks at that! Do they know they look silly?! I just feel its disrespectful to dress like that. Me? I guess I will be the one wearing my normal clothes, the ones they truly want to see you in!

One reason I find it hard to like my SIL is because she never got to be a teen/young adult. She had kids early... now that they are older, she is now in the phase where she's out chasing guys, getting drunk, going to clubs. She's almost 40 and one week is banging this guy, the next going after some other guy half her age... trying to get with her son's friends as they turn 18. She cares more about getting drunk with her friends than myself and my DH (her bro) she often forgets plans with us or won't invite us out because she'd rather be whoring it up, or getting into trouble.