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Thankful for a lesson I learned a long time ago

When I first got married, my husband was in the Army.  I remember several pieces of advice that veteran Army wives shared with me.  One was to always go with your husband if you could go--even if it was only for a few months.  Make the sacrifice.  Go.  It may not be what you want, but it's the best thing for your marriage and it gives Satan the less opportunities to come between you two. Another piece of advice really came in the form of the examples I saw.  I heard from my husband about wives who complained about their husbands' jobs and the hours and I saw it in person.  I also heard about wives who didn't complain and supported their husbands and saw examples of this.  My husband spoke to me several times about how much a wife's disposition towards the Army could affect a husband's attitude about his job.  He would mention it the course of a conversation about how bad morale was at times.  I took from that the lesson that I would st...