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How does it work with a family?
Started by WifeyForLifey!!. Last reply by Jeanne_778 Oct 29, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Comment by missin'mybrowneyedboy on September 28, 2012 at 12:44am
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Oh, you two are adorable: ) Both your sailors are very fortunate to have a great young woman in their life: ) You remind me of an old WWII song "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me" I think you two are the exact sort of girlfriend this song was referring too. Bravo!
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Comment by Daniella on September 27, 2012 at 9:59pm
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Bremerton is one that is named after one of my my favorite states, WA! :D
yea, I write email/journal daily to him too, and recently I noticed that helps me to settle my feeling soo much. I usually spend pretty long time what to tell him, and I kinda enjoy the time to think and type mails. Also, by checking small details on each day to report to him through email, I pay close tention and enjoy everyday more:D
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Lhyza, Emails everyday!? wow...kudos to him!! That's very nice of him :D and yes I'm in HI too :) My bf is in USS La Jolla. How about your bf? They are deployed now, so technically not both of us but only I'm in HI lol ;p
missin'mybrowneyedboy, hehehe I like you called your son 'decipher oddity' lol. Actually I do write the same kind of message in the mails and confuse him a lot too. Like 'as I wrote yesterday...' But yes, I think numbering helps them a lot, so I really recommend :D
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Oh, wow, Lhyza, you receive an email everyday?!? My kid will flip when I share that great nugget! I know he loves having an excuse to NOT communicate too often but he just may need to up the ante at least back to where he was before they went silent: )
And, Daniella, I will need to start dating/numbering my emails...that is if I don't want to let him off trying to figure out the randomness of them: ) I can really understand him being confused about some of them because I deliberately would leave "the rest of the story to follow" in the next email. Ha! He's a sonar tech. He's supposed to be decipher oddities:D
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Hi Lhyza, my bf is stationed in HI too. I'm not sure you are still checking here or not, but if are there any questions I can help, I would love to :)
and congrats missin'mybrowneyedboy to receive emails! yay! Everyone on this website(especially sum moms/wives/gfs) knows exactly how exciting to see their mail. I'm pretty new to here, but checking here helps me to stay strong by thinking that I'm not the only one being patient;) Also I agree to put date and number for each Email. I usually put Day#(since they left), Date, Email#(how many mails I have sent), and my bf said he likes it :D
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Well, I wish I had posted that whinny, complaining comment "awhile" ago because I got an email today!! HURRAY!!! He said he was "healthy"(yeah!) with "more" emails to come, so I'm smiling big : ))) As others have suggested on the sub sites, it is a good idea to date/number your emails(I had not) as they arrived in "bursts, in no particular order. I really don't feel too bad about any confusion he may be having, I just consider it payback for all teen years of "wha?" "huh" and "k" : )
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Hi Lhyza, I hope he's doing well, too. He is out on his first underway and initally I heard from him every 7-10 days, but he has been silent for many weeks now and it feels like boot camp all over again, but even tougher. In the last email he sent he said it would be "the last for awhile" and I just hope that "awhile" ends soon: ) Despite my complaining, I think these separations for us moms cannot compare to what girlfriends and wives go through. Hopefully, you have a very close support group there in Hawaii: )
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Hi Lhyza(SUBMARINE GF) My son is a STS but not stationed in Hawaii. Have you joined the Sub mom group? Lots of Hawaii moms there, not necessarily STS's but great general information. Also there is a "ET and FT and STS" N4Ms site. Maybe someone on there has a son/bf in Hawaii? Hope you find a good connection: )
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Again, Jeanne, thanks for posting these. This dad looked like he had a blast: ) Another great thing about you, or anyone, posting these links is it always leads to other submarine videos or slideshows that are pretty interesting, too
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Comment by Lani on August 8, 2012 at 9:04pm
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Is anyone's Sailor set to graduate A school on November 2nd?
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