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Is he going to change?

I've been reading Danny's letters and I have noticed being a patterns girl he seems different. Increase use pf language he is using. He still sounds like himself but little things I picked up on him. Any one else notice a change in their SR after boot camp? Did you just need to get used to them?

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Permalink Reply by Eryn on November 9, 2012 at 9:46pm

Oh wow!! That's messed up!

Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on November 8, 2012 at 7:55pm

The writing in all caps thing actually has a practical application. There are still many situations where the Navy maintains written log books, and those have to be legible to anyone who needs to read it, without them wasting what could be very valuable time trying to decypher handwriting, or reading something wrong. It's also the reason they put a slash through their zeros, it makes them easily dicernable from the letter O when written. Same reason they have to do dates in a certain format, because if I told you something was on 02/04/2012, depending on what part of the world you're from, it could be the second of April, or it could be Feb 4th

Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on November 8, 2012 at 8:06pm

They are allowed to be themselves, with their own personalities, but the thing is, they know how to "be them", what they are trying to teach them in boot camp is how to "be Navy", because, and yes, this might sound dramatic, but it's still very true, there could very easily be a time where someone's lives (maybe even their own) where they have to be able to NOT be "themself", where they need to be in 100% Navy mode, personal feelings and emotions and desires aside. Boot camp helps them learn how to do that.

It's sort of like how a surgeon has to be able to set aside the fact that the body on the table is a person, and their life is in their hands, and just focus on cutting them open and removing the cancer or whatever, kwim?

Just hang in there, they will find a balance between "home them" and "sailor them" soon :-)

Permalink Reply by Dina0106 on November 8, 2012 at 9:40pm

Good! I'm glad to hear it, I still want a big softy for a husband lol

Permalink Reply by Dina0106 on November 8, 2012 at 9:37pm

My Fiance writes pretty normal, everything was in his writing. I wish he was writing in caps sometimes I can barely make out his hand writing lol

Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on November 9, 2012 at 12:08am

You'll have him back, he just needs to find the balance between the two and it won't happen at boot camp. The thing is, while he will fundamentally be who he was before, he will change. But that's not a bad thing or something to worry about. If you think about it, look at how much you, yourself have changed... Reading your posts on here, I've seen a change in you - a positive one! You seem much more confident in yourself and in your relationship. You have faced finding out you are pg, to now worrying about your baby and being on bedrest, and you are handling it. You've discovered strengths in yourself that, prior to him going, you didn't know you had, right?

ALL of those things have changed you and left an impression on you - that's what life does! BUT, you are still "you" - right? You still love your Sailor, right? Because it has changed you - not reinvented you. Same with them :-)

Plus, and I hope this doesn't offend you or anyone else on here, but even if he wasn't in the Navy, he wouldn't always remain the man he was the day he left, because that would be emotionally stunted. I love my husband just as much - if not more - now than I did when I married him. But you know, 20 yr old me would not fall in love with my 40 yr old husband. And 40 yr old me wouldn't fall in love with 20 yr old him... And that's because neither of us are exactly who we were then. We've grown and changed together - even when we're apart.

Just like you will :-) (and if you want one more example - are you exactly the same as you were, say, even 4 years ago?)

Permalink Reply by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on November 9, 2012 at 12:44am