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Girlfriend vs. Wife
Right now I am a girlfriend of a Sailor. We have been together for about two years and we know this is permanent. We have talked about marriage before, and it is definitely going to happen. What kind of things change when you are a Navy Wife instead of a Navy Girlfriend? Do they have less time on sea and more time on shore? Are they more stationary and stationed more closer to you? All the pros and cons that you guys can come up with in this Girlfriend vs. Wife debate I would love to know. Any personal experience would be great too.
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Permalink Reply by Naming-The-Past on
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NavyWifeTrivette- If you're married they will make your spouse move with you?
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Permalink Reply by NavyWifeTrivette on
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I have never heard of them "making" the spouse move with the sailor before, until it happened to us. I don't know any details on it, all I know is I need to be in GA by Oct 20. I think if it does happen, then it is a very rare occurrence so I don't think it is anything too much to worry about, but I don't know for sure. If I find out any more on it though, I will definitely let you all know!
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Permalink Reply by andrea d on
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Can they make you move with your sailor. I am getting married to mine in a little over a year. But my daughters dad is fighting for her to not be able to move out of state. Will they take this into consideration if my ex is able to stop me from movign her out of state.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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They can make him take the lower BAH amount, and they can charge him for government housing (barracks room) if he uses one because you aren't there. There is paperwork he can file to be a geographical bachelor if you must stay behind. The Navy will not give you enough money for two residences. They can't "make" a dependent move.
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I'm not worried about it, I was just wondering lol.
What part of Georgia are you moving to? -
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Kings Bay, I leave Friday night. Gonna be a long drive though!
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I bet, when we went to my boyfriends bootcamp graduation in Illinois it was a 15 hour drive to Ohio (his parents and I stayed there at his grandparents and left the day before he graduated to go to Illinois) and I live in northern GA
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Yeah according to MapQuest it is an 18 hour drive...but only mom my will be able to drive the rental van because I am under 25 so we will have to make stops. It will prolly take about 24 hours! Plus we will have a dog with us, that should be quite the adventure!
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Permalink Reply by meagan5220 on
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lol I moved from Oklahoma to Washington state... 30 hour drive and I had my extremely old grumpy dog and we did two 15 hour days lol
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lol, yeah we had a nine year old in the car with us who was wanting to stop almost every 2 hours. But the trip was fun, and getting to see him was the best part.
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Permalink Reply by PRDGNSubWife on
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If you are driving from Groton to Kings Bay, It's going to take about 24 hours. If you take I95 though, drive through the night and you won't hit hardly any traffic. I've done this drive 4 times already and I'll be leaving next Tuesday to do it all over again.
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Permalink Reply by Brittany proud Navy Wife :) on
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Ive heard of them making the spouse move if the sailor is no longer in school. While they are in school they will pay bah and let the sailor live in the barracks, but onces training is over they dont want to have to pay for the sailor to live in barracks and give out BAH.
IMO girlfriends have no benefits at all, if you are a serious girlfriend you go through the loneliness and missing him and get known of the perks. You cant shop at the NEX, Commissary, Nex gas station, etc without someone there with you who has an ID. You cant get on base alone to go to the parks/beach/movie theatre/bowling alley or any of the fun things on base. You dont get contacted by the navy if something goes wrong or for questions since ur not married and arent family.
My hubby joined up after we had been married for 2 and half years so i never had to experience those things -
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