My husband and I are going storage unit hunting this weekend. I'm still packing and moving next weekend. Camp staff training begins the following week and my finals are due that weekend. My mom is calling me every other day asking me if my husband and I understand what we are doing. My girlfriends want to hang out before I move. There is too much to do! I am going to have a heart attack!

asking for quick prayers. Just found out 3 soldiers were killed near where my dh is deployed. We've been gone all day and just got home. I am freaking out. The kids have no clue what's going on. Ds 15's girlfriend is here as are several neighbor kids (civilian world, we're reserves family). I'm trying to hold it together. I'm on the edge of panic and don't know what to do right now. I know he has to be okay. He has to.

I hate when the 1- and 2-stripers and their girlfriends treat the Dining Out like prom and show up hooting and hollering in limos, flashing pictures everywhere, and the girls wearing short skimpy dresses. You are an embarrassment.

I literally don't have any friends, other than guys that want to get drunk and maybe get lucky. it would be nice to have a shopping girlfriend, or a shoulder to cry on...or someone to confess to, without judgement, once in a while.

2 deployments ago, I stayed put, I went out every weekend, went window shopping daily, and had fun with my girlfriends. I lost over 50 lbs. just having fun and being me. Over the last deployment, I moved back home, didn't go out as much and spent a lot of time inside. I only lost 10 lbs. When he is home, I put on weight because he doesn't enjoy doing the things that I do. I am beginning to think that I am better of being me, the independent me. It's better for my health, better for my career, and better all around. I feel worthless when I am with him.

I don't think wives are better than girlfriends or fiances but you're not a military wive so stop calling yourself one! You're engaged. You were supposed to be married but you "both decided to wait" and your still engaged. You are not a wife! Stop running around saying "I'm a military wife" or "my husband" when it's a lie! Just annoys the crap out of me. It really doesn't matter if your wife or fiance so stop lying to half the world

I never considered myself a military girlfriend. When dating DH, I didn't know there was a "military culture" and you became something other than a girlfriend. Probably because his job at that time was no deployments, and usual banker-type hours. I dunno it just never occured to me. I didn't look up military info, ever, or think any different of it than if he was a fast food worker or a professor or an office dude.

We are going through a rough patch right now and it is affecting my social life in a negative manner. One of my girlfriends told me that she needs me to stop being so catty and harsh and go back to being the nicer version of me. I can't help but to be cynical right now though. I dk if it's his last tour to Afghan that changed it, our pending PCS, or the fact that I resent him for not holding me back but really holding me back from my ambitions. It's probably a mix of all of it and more. I just don't know how to reconnect. I think my marriage is failing.

My BIL girlfriend wants to wear a wedding dress to the Ball. Really girl?

Some days I miss being 'just a girlfriend'. Waiting and anticipating for weeks being able to come see him, that excitement, and hell even cuddling up on that teeny tiny barrack's bed. I wouldn't trade being his wife for anything but I remember those days fondly.