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Proposal from bootcamp
Hello ladies! My SR shipped out April 17th.Before he left our relationship was great but no talk about marriage yet. His first letter home he asked me to marry him and every letter since has been focusing on the marriage topic. He was injured 3 weeks ago and still is in RCU. Since then he is really into it now. I spoke with him 2 weeks ago for an hour and he told me that he wants me to go ahead and start planning the wedding so that when he returns we can go ahead and marry. He even wrote my mother asking for her blessings. He and I were together for 6 months before he left. Everyone that I tell, tells me not to get my hopes up because they all do that in boot camp because they are lonely and miss home but once they get to A school they usually do not follow through with their promises from boot camp. His A school is in Gulfport, MS for 7 weeks and then he returns home because he is in the reserves. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? I am looking for a bit of insight as to whether I should wait until he returns to start planning or just go ahead and start.
Thanks so much!
Mandy
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Permalink Reply by Nellz15 on
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My husband proposed to me while he was at the hotel the night b4 he was supposed to leave for GL. Be forewarned A-school is a very dangerous time for relationships, and I'm sure you'll come to hate it as much as the rest of us. Anyway my hubby had alot of people in his family trying to talk him out of the marriage during A-school, not to mention all the annoying girls, but in the long run he chose to stick with his decision. We've had our rough times but all marriages will, our 1st anniversary is next month :) they say the 1st yr is always the hardest. lol
As far as planning goes, it was hard for me to plan everything alone and i hate that he missed out on alot of it, just made it all seem kinda fake with the way we had to do it all, so I personally would wait since he's in the reserves anyway. But it really just depends on how normal you want your wedding/engagement experience to be.
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Permalink Reply by kling on
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I'm fairly new about all this, but why do you say A-School is a very dangerous time for relationships? Lol that's got me a little anxious for some reason...
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There's a lot of cheating/flirting that tends to go on during A-school. Though of course not everyone is like that, a lot of the girls on here don't like to bring it up as it scares some people, but I think its only fair to be warned.
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Permalink Reply by AshleySuperfly on
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What makes A-School so easy to cheat/flirt as opposed to any other time? (I'm only asking b/c if you read below...I didn't have to go through the whole A-School thing LOL)
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Well in the normal navy life i suppose it might not make it easier than other times, my husband only does 1 week mini deployments so he's here every weekend pretty much. But in GL A-school (i don't know about the others very much) the males and females live in the same building, tho granted aren't allowed on to the other genders side. Plus they don't generally have to worry about anyone back home finding out if they did have a fling while there. So its pretty much just easy access to do it if they want and not have to worry about it.
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I'm glad my boyfriend is done with all of that. He's stationed on a ship and I feel a lot better about that then other situations. It's gotta be difficult to hook up with girls on a ship LOL!...plus, he told me a guy was discharged for constantly hooking up with a girl on board. Who knows...
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I agree, advice isn't really useful if you're not being completely honest. But I never heard about the fact that there's a lot of flirting/cheating in A School though. Lol that makes trying to not be the crazy girlfriend while he gets settled into A-School a LITTLE harder now
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yea I went through the crazy paranoid stage too but mine happened after we'd alrdy gotten married, because i didn't know about the kind of stuff that can go on there. lol
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I'm not in the same situation because my boyfriend and I got together after boot camp/A School, everything. He was already stationed on his ship. Our relationship is only working because we've actually known each other since high school and just finally came to the realization we should be together lol. Anyway, I wanted to respond by saying approach with caution. I've been with my boy about 3 months officially and when he comes home from deployment, it will have been close to a year that we will have been together. I care about him very deeply and could definitely see me spending the rest of my life with him, but if he asked me to marry him anytime soon or when he gets home, I'd probably say no. Most of our relationship will have been totally electronic. I only got to see him a total of about 5 days between the time we starting dating to the time he deployed. I can't see making a marriage out of that, even though in my heart, I'd love to be his wife. I read a blog on mistakes new sailors make, and this is one of them. It said you should wait at least 4 years into enlistment (not your relationship) to marry, that way they are done with all the schools/training and should be past their first deployment. If you can withstand all of that, marriage is definitely a valid option. I'm lucky in that his 4 year mark is coming up, so it's "smooth sailing," so to speak, after that LOL Of course, it's all case by case and you have to do what's right for you. If you have no reservations about it all, then it's a choice for you to make! Good luck! :-)
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Permalink Reply by Mandisa-R on
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Hmmm. Do they really have that much freedom in A school? I keep telling myself A school in only 7 weeks but I know anything can happen. I have heard horror stories about A school and relationships but was trying to keep optimistic about it.
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well 7 weeks isn't all that long, but there are people that can end up staying in A-school for up to a year. As far as freedom is concerned, when they 1st get there they don't have very much but as they get phase 2 and phase 3 they get more freedoms. During phase 2 they can leave base with friends and don't have to be back til like 10pm and phase 3 they can stay off base during the weekends.
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