Long distance

By singlesailor - 19/09/2009 06:18 - United States

Today, I'm in my fourth month of training in the US Navy. I'm 3000 miles from home. I joined to give my wife a better life. Since I've been gone, she decided that she liked being single. FML
I agree, your life sucks 48 540
You deserved it 4 466

Same thing different taste

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BaconChubs 0

:( That's so thoughtful. She doesn't deserve you.

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:( Sorry hun. Love's a pisser sometimes.

Lepton 0

Yo, man, there's plenty of women who'd love to be with a Navy guy like yourself. Keep your head up.

I am right there with you. My husband wants to join the army so that he can financially support me but I'd much rather be dirt poor and wake up beside him each morning knowing he's safe than have him leave for long periods of time. It's something he wants to do though and so I'm being supportive. However I'm secretly hoping his medical waiver gets denied =

Also this was supposed to be a reply to someone, not a comment to the OP. To the OP, Find yourself a woman who can love you and the sacrifices you are making. Afterall, I'm sure it's not a walk in the park for you either. Stay strong, and thank you.

I understand men who do this are honestly trying to do the best for their wife/family, but seriously, most women would rather a husband who is AT HOME earning a bit less than away from home 6 months of the year earning more money. I read a story once about a guy who was working 80 hour weeks so that he and his wife could live in an apartment block with doorman/security etc etc and his relationship with his wife was going on a downwards spiral something chronic and he couldn't understand how she kept accusing him of not loving her. He was thinking "WTF do you think I'm working 80 hours a week for?!" but she would have MUCH rathered have him at home earning less and living in a regular apartment block than never having him home. Their relationship got HEAPS better when he quit his job and they moved and he got a job working 40 - 50 hours a week. I don't want to say YDI because no guy (well not most guys) deserves that, and you were trying to do what you thought was right. And it is an FML in some ways because, well, a person really does have to think "man, that's f'ed". You were trying to do the right thing. But fail on the whole communication thing dude.

arienh4 0

I'm seriously going to put this on a macro. Read this over and over until you understand it, then read it 10x more. YOU. CANNOT. DEFEND. YOUR. OWN. COUNTRY. ON. A. DIFFERENT. CONTINENT. Got it? Your comment makes no sense, based on that.

pshen 0

HMMMM I think history would disagree with you on that statement several times

mommy1907 0

i am a navy Nuke wife and my husband did it for the sake of me and our daughter he loves it thank you for doing something greater then most of these assholes

Hey its the theory of preemptive strike, and essentially every military theory developed out the window number 113, and like #114 said and the entirety of history. Let me try to explain it to you: there is a guy who wants to kill you, he in many cases tries to kill you, he will try to kill you and your family again, so you kill him at his house. In fact with long range ballistics someone can kill your cities without even leaving your country. Congratulations on ignorance #113.

arienh4 0

Talk about ignorance. "there is a guy who wants to kill you" But that's not what this is, is it? No, America thinks there's some bully who wants to kill them, and decided to kill them first. Big difference.

I feel your pain but I know your trying to do good but to all you trash talkers out there not everyone in the military is a blood hungry idiot trying to kill whatever we can I've been to iraq and yeah there are killings but hey it happens every where and we try to help we give people food clothes toys and in case you people didn't know we don't shoot at anyone unless we are fired upon go look up the rules of war i m just saying I've been there and those guys suicide bomb each other and innocent people get hurt but most of you trash talkers wouldn't understand because you've never been there or ever will Hope you feel better keep doing good

arienh4 0

Once you can write something legible I might be able to find an argument in there, but until then there's nothing that makes sense in that statement.