The Officer's Wife

Now that you know me a little better, I figure I can start catching you up to where I am now.  A lot has happened since my husband commissioned.  He went active duty at the beginning of this year, we did a DITY move to Fort Benning, Georgia, and my husband has already hit week 4 of IBOLC training.  But to start with catching up, I figure I can tell you a little about what I did, and wish I'd done, in preparation for my husband going active duty and us reporting to Fort Benning. My husband received his orders just over a year before he would report to Fort Benning.  That gave him enough time to graduate (he had already finished the Army ROTC program), for us to court and get married, and to start the process of really developing our relationship as a married couple.  I recognize these are luxuries that many other newlyweds in the military don't have.  We certainly were blessed with the timing of everything. I began asking questions, trying to understand ...

Hello!  My name is Christine and I recently became an officer's wife.  This is a whole new experience for me, and one that I feel sharing may be helpful for anyone coming and visiting my blog.  Maybe you are in a similar boat as I am!  Believe me, I'm not an expert.  I'm still trying to figure things out.  My husband is a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and I married him only a few months before he graduated college and commissioned, so I'm still learning.  Hopefully this blog can give you some peace of conscious and help and direction, knowing that you're not alone in figuring this out.  I know I have felt alone and quite lost to an extent, so we're definitely in this together. To give you a brief introduction about me, as I mentioned, I got married about 6 months ago.  I met my husband on a blind date nearly a year and a half before we got married.  I've always been patriotic and have a huge respect for the military, but until ...