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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. How do families manage when these sudden changes in plans happen? How do you live your life knowing that making big decisions is often counterproductive? At least, if it is so crucial, they deserve an explanation, which is rarely if ever given. This is a blog about my experiences as the wife of a naval officer. Proud Liberal Army Wife.
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. You are supposed to be ready for anything, and ask for nothing in return. Readiness. The military loves this term. The Family Readiness Group (FRG) attached to each military unit is supposed to keep military families and service members ready for the stresses of deployment. For example, the FRG web page of the. USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. And proceeds with ...
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. Hi and welcome to Rocking the Boat! I’ve been dating a naval submarine officer for over two years now. Let’s just call him Sam, as in Sam the Submariner. We’ll call whatever mighty craft he is sailing at the moment the U.S.S. Submarine, and we’ll call me Tammy, as in, Tammy the Turbulent one. There are many blogs out there by women whose husbands and boyf...
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Military moves, and the difference a month makes - Rocking the Boat
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. Military moves, and the difference a month makes. Because where we would be and when was totally up in the air. Alas, today, while I am in a foreign country for work and Sam is on the boat, he writes me an email announcing that his placement will be in the same general metro area, but one month earlier, and in a different, smaller city. That we will have ...
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Homecoming - Rocking the Boat
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. For those non-military readers, a “homecoming” is a welcome party for service members returning from deployment, attended by hundreds of friends and family. When I tried to figure out what takes place at a homecoming, I found only lists of instructions. Of homecomings as spontaneous expressions of love and pride. The advice of my friend Renee, another off...
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Release - Rocking the Boat
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. Sam has also made an effort to acknowledge verbally what it means to me to be cancelled on often. He tells me that he knows I have a lot of things going on in my life, and that it must be frustrating for me to make time for him and then not see him. This, too, takes the angry edge off of a frustrating situation. Please submit your story to rockingtheboat2...
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Military weddings - Rocking the Boat
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. Two of the first questions from Sam's parents after we got engaged were whether Sam would wear his military uniform at our wedding, and whether there would be crossed swords for us to pass through on our way out of the ceremony. Many others asked the same afterwards. Why don't we see ridiculousness in the military's presence at weddings? I want this to be...
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What's in a name? - Rocking the Boat
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An honest forum for military spouses. One navy wife's experiences;. An open invitation for other military spouses and partners to submit their stories. What's in a name? As our wedding gets closer, I think a great deal about marital traditions in the United States, what they mean, and how to create a ceremony and married life that affirms our inherent equality with one another. Points out, we cannot forget that this is a tradition rooted in 19th century laws denying married women the right to own propert...
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Pobble Thoughts: January 2015
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I am a New Englander, a Southerner, my own woman, Rex's daughter, a quivering mass of contradictions. Nothing here means any more or less than you want it to mean. This and a buck fifty will get you coffee. But it's me. And I really like that. Sunday, January 18, 2015. Written permanently is "Before I die I want to " and you are encouraged to fill in a blank. When it rains, it washes the old answers off, giving up the spaces for new responses. God, I know that place. I remember it. Pretty much since 9/11...
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Pobble Thoughts: October 2014
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I am a New Englander, a Southerner, my own woman, Rex's daughter, a quivering mass of contradictions. Nothing here means any more or less than you want it to mean. This and a buck fifty will get you coffee. But it's me. And I really like that. Monday, October 20, 2014. Especially for this time of year (but really any time):. Also, you don't get to be mad at me if I stop coming by your facebook page, your tumblr, your blog, your reddit thread, anywhere I can see the damn thing. Thursday, October 16, 2014.
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