After recording, a male spouse of a marine, reminded me of another stereotype: that "spouses of service members are all wives". Let us not forget the husbands who put up with all the stuff the military dishes out to their families, too!
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5 comments:
you touched on so many I forgot about of left out. Great thoughts on them. when my health insurance ran out I got emergency care insurance and that was only after I was scared by my friend who had an appendicitis that cost her 30k. Tag chasers nice how did i for get this one?
I also can't stand women who wear their husbands rank. They frustrate me.
Yeah I take it with a grain of salt. Yeah some people fit the "stereotype" but most don't.
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The uneducated gold digger one cracks me up--my husband and I both went to Ivy League schools undergrad and grad and he was a big firm lawyer when we got married--imagine the drop in his salary when he joined the military.
I do think that it can be nice, especially in this economy, to know that your spouse can provide some financial security--you'll always at least have medical and housing covered. I don't think it makes someone a gold digger but it can be an attractive part of the whole package--one thing that may attract a person to another could be their stability and responsibility.
That said, I have certainly seen women chasing soldiers because of the benefits and then they empty the bank account during deployment but that is not the majority of military spouses or even a large minority.
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You're adorable. Seriously. And you are so right, husband spouses of military members get overlooked 99% of the time.
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