MARRIED LADIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nicole~a sailors girl(:]

How's your married life? Do tell!:) Lots of ladies getting married/who are married, I'd love to heara bout your experiances good and bad!!

[Sara]

WOOOO I'm married :)  I've got to say it has been a CRAZY ride. I got married on March 11, 2010 so I've been married for almost 8 months.  The ups to it are definitely more respect by the military. I'm actually something in the eyes of the military now. They don't recognize girlfriends or fiances but once you are married it is different. I have health/dental insurance, my husband was able to apply for housing so we now live together on base, we get BAS (food allowance) and I have been added to all of his paperwork for if something were to happen to him. Marriage is a big deal to me, it's nice knowing that I will be with someone I am madly in love with for the rest of my life. The down side is that my husband works everyday and during the hours that everything is open so if I need to do anything on base I am doing it alone. That can be intimidating for me sometimes. I mean think about it... you move to a military installation where you know nothing and nobody and then your husband has to work so you are by yourself (or in my case with the baby) and you have to call the hospital to make a doctors appointment then find the hospital and the doctors office inside the hospital and go to an appointment with your baby in tow. I call any companies that mess up any of our bills, I do the grocery shopping by myself, I call maintenance when something breaks (pain the butt btw) I do EVERYTHING except bring home the bacon! Before the military I was the type of person that always wanted a friend to go with me places or if I had to call someone I at least wanted someone else in the room with me haha but it just doesn't work like that once you are a military wife. 

 

I am beginning to adjust and really enjoy it here.   My biggest piece of advice for any ladies getting married to a sailor is to get involved. The second you know where you will be living look up that base on facebook, try to find a spouse page, call your sailor's sponsor and ask about support groups or something. Make friends!  It is the only way you will keep your sanity. I also recommend living on base... the housing (I can only speak for Andrews AFB) isn't the best but there are hundreds and hundreds of wives to meet, kids to make friends with your kids, support groups, family activities, cheaper gas/food/clothes/etc.... and remember that pretty  much every wife you meet either is or has been in a similar situation to yours!

[nicole~a sailors girl(:]

My boyfriend is wanting to get married, i'm 17 years old, yeah, young, we're coming up on 1 year in february and he's asking my dad possibly in november, or december if he can marry me, if my dad says yes, we will probably do a court house wedding so i am on his orders, so we can get things together for the navy to move me in may when i graduate highschool. if my dad says no then he will propose sometime anyway, i will move myself, and we will live off base together because he will be required to during the last part of his schooling, then we'll get married when i turn 18. i'm extremely nervous about what my dad will say, because hes wishy washy, some days hes one way, some days hes another. im not sure what he will think about me being married young, but i think he may support what i want, because hes always been one to at least listen to my side of the story before shutting it down.

[krisnjay]

this was a great post to read, we are looking at getting married after his a school, believe me i cant wait for that :)

[samantha2014 (AMAA, CA)]

My boyfriend and I are also talking about marriage but not until after I graduate college in 2 years. Until then, I will not be on his orders or living with him or anything.