There, it is in the open for all my bloggers to read. It may make me sound whiny, or bratty, but it is just the honest to goodness truth!
I never thought I'd be living this life to begin with. In fact, Mr. Marine's and my "courtship" took a little hiatus when he informed me he would be joining the Marine Corps while at the University of Georgia. I said, "it is honorable that you want to serve your country, but I will NEVER be a military wife...especially not a MARINE wife."
Well, our story picked up a few years later (save for another post) and here I am...traveling the country, uprooting my life every time his life beckons, leaving friends behind and spending many a lonely night all in support of the Good Ol' USA.
I struggle with this emotion "bitterness" because I know many wives make this sacrifice without complaint. I am proud to be a military wife. My husband leads some of the bravest men and women for a greater cause and all I can do is whine that I don't have a shopping buddy? As one of my dearest friends said to me one day, "I (my friend) can't complain because all I do is shop, drink, raise our kids and hang out with the girls while he is gone. He risks his life and I don't."
That is Soooooo not my philosophy! Mr. Marine and I did not pick-up until he had graduated from UGA and was in Office Candidate School (or OCS to my fellow spouses.) So I already had an established job in Houston, I was living by family and prepared to spend my years on a front porch swatting mosquitoes off my citronella drenched skin!
Then I got married and relocated to po-dunk North Carolina. I cried every night. Then I met wives who cried too. We learned that coffee in the morning, margaritas at lunch and wine in the evening made the crappy times better! Now, I am not a drunk...but any wife who has gone through a deployment will agree that there are times when a stiff drink is all you want!
Now we are living in the Midwest. I was thinking heartland of the US, down-to-earth ladies that I will make friends with immediately. Ummm...no. Now, I know some of my blog readers are from the Midwest so I must ask, "Is everyone this hard to get to know?"
I feel like I am the new kid in school and the cheerleaders don't like me and I am foreign to the computer nerds (which I guess us Southerners are foreign to most people). Everyone is so clique-ish here.
I am used to bangin' down the neighbor's door with food, drinks, housewarming gift...something. Here, no one cares who moves in because they already have their friends!
I am just asking for some advice from any Midwesterners that might read this. Please help!
The Midwest is like another country to me and I just need someone who has traveled these roads before to give me a roadmap.
I am all to familiar with the Southern way of life...but I am at a loss when it comes to the middle of this great country!
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