By everyonesdivorced - 02/10/2009 16:47 - Iraq

Today, my husband of five years told me he's leaving me and will be gone when I return from Iraq. When I told him I love him and asked him not to go, he said he won't file divorce papers just yet, but he's moving out-of-state because "we need time apart." I've been gone for most of the year. FML
I agree, your life sucks 47 586
You deserved it 3 177

Same thing different taste

Top comments

BurlyWurly 0

You need to hurry up and divorce him ASAP - you can't fix douchebag, and if you convince him not to leave you now, he'll probably just wind up hanging around for a few for more years before he really does leave you, except by then you'll have been married long enough for him to be entitled to a percentage of your retirement that you're earning in Iraq right now.

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quivx 7

You certainly don't deserve it.

This wasn't even an FML story.. This is just a depressing statement.

littlelotte 0

Thank you so much for serving our country! Without our troops, our country wouldn't be the same. To the repliers criticizing her and saying mean things about the troops, shame on you! Because of them do you have the right to even post things like that. Anyways, OP. Keep your head up girl! You deserve so much better than that!

emshilie 0

My mom's cousin did something similar to her husband while he was deployed. That really sucks, OP, I'm so sorry. You deserve much, much better. On the flip side, thank you for serving our country. You are a genuine hero. :)

leagally he can't divorce you while deployed, just go to jag to have it stopped

elmyra_duff 0

I am sorry but YOU TOTALLY DESERVE IT! Please don't tell me that you were serving your country in Iraq bla bla bla.. the war in Iraq was started by a ......(fill in the way you like) US president and it is totally wrong! There's something called 'desertion' from the army. If you were gone to Afghanistan, I would have not said this, but the people in the army who refuse to desert from the army and go to Iraq anyways in order to 'bring peace' to Iraq are totally fooling everybody including themselves. US only entered Iraq not to 'bring peace', but to 'own and manage the oil' in Iraqian land, and their claim was they were going to find 'the nuclear weapons' in Iraq. I ask you, why hasn't the army found ANY nuclear weapons in Iraq? Because there weren't any. And is United States the world police to 'destroy the nuclear weapons and bring peace' to Iraq? No. You know, there certainly is a lot of nuclear weapons in IRAN. Why can't US enter Iran if 'world peace' is that important? Because US is afraid of Iran. Iran isn't an easy bite as Iraq. Anyways, as I said, if you were gone to Afghanistan and your family was falling apart, I would've pitied you. But not Iraq. You should have deserted from the army instead of going to Iraq, found a job here in the US and probably your husband wouldn't have estranged from you. YDI. and for nothing.

Wow your an asshole!!! Shes risking her life by going there and you have the nerve to say YDI for going to iraq. Wow. Go to hell!!!! Im sorry your husband is leaving you!!!

whatchasay8389 0

fist of all, the people saying she deserved it, ARE DUMB AS ****. it's not like she had a CHOICE where she deployed, she has to follow her orders. & to not do so, is against the law and she could go to jail. you obviously haven't grown up with the military, so i wouldn't expect you to know anything about it.

Hunnibum 0

I know a guy who went to Iraq. He said what a lot of soldiers do over there is hand people money. Small business. The elite are the ones who don't want them there, the regimes. And im sure some people who were brainwashed into thinking that americans are the ones killin g citizens with car bombs. we're also there cleaning up the mess we made. repairing.

#45 - What? Did you have some high school teacher that taught you that all the reasons they say we went in are lies? Because that's what my teacher's saying, but I'm not so dumb as to say, "Oh, you're a troop maybe risking your life out there for your country? Well, you deserve a husband who wants a divorce (or maybe have it made easy by have you rid of by other methods)...I mean, wtf? I can assure that most of the troops in Iraq did not sign up to because they wanted to fet oil. They signed up for what they believed in, and you can blame the government and whoever else you want to, but why the hell does she deserve it for defending her own country and helping another country (No, most of the troops there are not shooting things and shit, they are actually HELPING.) And deserted from the army and gotten a job? You REALLY have no idea what your talking about - after you desert, it's almost impossible to get a decent job. Places don't look upon you nicely if you've got that on your record. OP - Have one of your army friends bomb him if he touches your stuff. Besides that, I see little hope. FYL.

What the ****? DESERT? You do realize she'd have most likely been unable to go back (to the States), right? It's illegal and a very serious crime... no matter where you are. Back in the olden days, deserters were KILLED. Luckily we're a little more civilized now... but her life would be a million times more difficult if she were to desert. It's an eternal black mark on your life; you betrayed your job, your obligations, your COUNTRY (and yes, if you join the military, you are directly connected with serving your country like no other citizen, much like a politician)... nobody in the world is going to think highly of you if you so easily abandon your promises because they're inconvenient to you. Your word would mean nothing to most everyone. Seriously, your future interviewers would see that and be like "Ahahaha no. Obviously, you can't be trusted to stay if something doesn't go your way." It's almost akin to being marked a sexual offender. That shit follows you around /forever/. And with your mentality, people should quit school because they don't agree with their teachers' views! They should leave their jobs whenever a new policy is enacted they think is unfair! They should renounce their citizenship when a new law they dislike is established! Seriously. Life's tough; you have to do things and put up with stuff you don't like sometimes. Instead of throwing a fit, you trudge through it. That's part of being a grown up, sweetie.

_THE_MASTER_ 0

45, you are a complete idiot. first of all, 'desertion' gets you hell rained down like you've never seen before. secondly, shut the **** up, nobody deserves to have their spouse leave them unless they are abusive. thirdly, what are you, like 15? do you realize that desertion leads to dishonorable discharge which leads to you not even being able to get a job saying 'hi, may i take your order' into the michrophone at popeye's? you do realize these things, don't you? It isn't as if they go, shit, she left, wtf do we do now? there's consequences. you really are a whole new kind of stupid. You do also realize that if you get DEPLOYED, you do not get to choose where you go, right? honestly, you are an ignorant ****. and, there's a new president now, who isn't trying to go in anywhere guns a blazin' like the previous one did. so shut the **** up and go die in a fire, you're a ******* useless waste of air, organs, and life, and GTFO my interwebs. you're spreading stupidity at a most alarming rate. scaring the children and such. **** off.

45 How freaken stupid are you you sound like you are 8 and think you can just leave the army. I mean really, desertion is basically a death warrant for getting a job not to mention it is nearly impossible to deserve that when you are actually helping people. And for the guy above me a 15 year old would know this I think he just has to be 8 or something near that age to be so damn stupid. Oh might add desertion gets you jail time, would throw that in there but iPods are a pain.

Okay 45, you go do something for your country. Oh wait. Or you could just sit on FML and bitch about someone else whose doing it. Moron.

bogwandis 0

Ugh.....I'm sorry he is doing this to you in general, but I'm even more sorry that he didn't have the balls to wait until you got back to do it to your face. it makes me sick to hear all of these stories about military members being abandoned by their spouses. None of them deserve it. I'm a Navy wife, and no matter how hard it gets, I'm not going to run away. Thank you for your service and I hope you arrive home safely!

Baby-killer is more concerned about her boyfriend than all the innocent people she's helping to kill.

Seriously, **** you. You have no ******* clue what went on over there. There were more humanitarian missions goin on in Iraq and Afghanistan than actual combat missions, and the ones that did go on, we were forced into. If you're going to be mad at someone, be mad at the politicians, don't hate the grunts that don't want to be over there, who'd rather be home with their families. I seriously hate ignorant people like you.