Let's get a rider on that new military spouse law about establishing a home of record -- one that makes it illegal to say that phrase "you knew what you were getting into" to a military spouse! Punishment is to be self-administered --

Grrr... that drives me crazy when people say that to me, too. Agh! I mean, really - did I "know" that we'd have 4 deployments in 5 years? No. There is no freakin' way that I knew that or that EITHER of us knew that. Blah. Glad to have you back blogging.

I have always hated that phrase. But, as a reserve spouse, I get, "I guess you couldn't have known that, could you?" and that's about all sorts of stuff. I usually tell people one of a couple of things and the first is ALWAYS reserve spouses CAN read. At least my parents still have their fingers crossed since they paid a lot of money for my college diploma. Sometimes it takes a little tweaking to get to the bottom of whatever the new task at hand is, but we're pretty astute - most of us anyway. Another thing that irks me is, "he signed the papers. Don't complain." First, I would never complain to a civilian person about the military life. It takes waaay too much time and effort to speak civilian to them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing them - not in the least because, heck, I'm one, myself, but I do keep the conversations separate for my piece of mind.

The second thing I tell them is I guess when I married him, I should have known his aim would be off in the bathroom and his dirty socks would never again make it into the dirty clothes. Oh, wait...your husband does that too? and he's not military? Surely you knew what YOU were getting into. (insert snark)

Happy Monday

Ugh! Just because we "knew" what we were getting into, it can still suck/be difficult/annoying sometimes.

Gah! I hate when people do that in general. Just because you willingly go into something doesn't mean it makes it oh so easy. Even if you thought you were prepared for all that would come, doesn't mean you could actually be prepared for it all.

So what's wrong with a little throat-punch now and again.

that particular phrase - should be made illegal by all states. Loqui, I agree, we should put that in the MSRRA - I'll talk to the clerks when I get to the Hill on Wednesday.

My response - so, you got kids? nope, no complaining about anything they do - you knew what you were getting into. The dog - nope, no complaints there either, you knew what you were getting into.... you can really go to town on this one...

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