I haven't been here for awhile, so I'm sure none of you recognize me.
I am the wife of a military man that is deployed. It's not a long deployment, but he gets to come home for 3 weeks, then he is being sent to school for an undetermined amount of time. Could be 2 months - 5 months, then there is talk of his being deployed again immediately from his school, which is located in the US.
We are stationed in Japan. So, that's just a very long time to have to be away from my husband. The school has no consideration at all for those attending that come from overseas assignments with dependents still overseas.
I am really fighting feeling angry. I'm not new to the military life. We have been married for almost 11 years, and I was also enlisted in the military for 4 years prior to our marriage.
I home school our three little ones as well. Ages 9, 8, and 3. I have no family here, his unit promised to call me once a week, yet I have gotten one call, and he's been gone for over 4 weeks now. That's not a huge thing, I just really have no support. I have no one to help me with the kids, unless I take them to complete strangers, and the programs they have available really don't fit our personal family needs. Plus, the kids often act so much worse when I leave them with anyone else.
Most of this is just venting. I feel overwhelmed by responsibility, but not to the point of not being able to function or depression, or anything like that.
I have many friends over the internet who support me and encourage me, but as much as I wish it, my kids can not be placed through the computer into their care for a couple hours while I just clean my house, or do the grocery shopping. LOL Wishing just never works, does it?
Thank you for listening to my vent.
I worry for my husband's safety with so many things going on since the new administration has been making some really unwise decisions that have me wondering... well, that's another topic for another thread.
I am the wife of a military man that is deployed. It's not a long deployment, but he gets to come home for 3 weeks, then he is being sent to school for an undetermined amount of time. Could be 2 months - 5 months, then there is talk of his being deployed again immediately from his school, which is located in the US.
We are stationed in Japan. So, that's just a very long time to have to be away from my husband. The school has no consideration at all for those attending that come from overseas assignments with dependents still overseas.
I am really fighting feeling angry. I'm not new to the military life. We have been married for almost 11 years, and I was also enlisted in the military for 4 years prior to our marriage.
I home school our three little ones as well. Ages 9, 8, and 3. I have no family here, his unit promised to call me once a week, yet I have gotten one call, and he's been gone for over 4 weeks now. That's not a huge thing, I just really have no support. I have no one to help me with the kids, unless I take them to complete strangers, and the programs they have available really don't fit our personal family needs. Plus, the kids often act so much worse when I leave them with anyone else.
Most of this is just venting. I feel overwhelmed by responsibility, but not to the point of not being able to function or depression, or anything like that.
I have many friends over the internet who support me and encourage me, but as much as I wish it, my kids can not be placed through the computer into their care for a couple hours while I just clean my house, or do the grocery shopping. LOL Wishing just never works, does it?
Thank you for listening to my vent.
I worry for my husband's safety with so many things going on since the new administration has been making some really unwise decisions that have me wondering... well, that's another topic for another thread.
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