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My wife and I along with the rest of the world are suffering from this economy. I just recently got "pink slipped" from my job and I am not bringing any money with the paycheque from the reserves. My wife works fulltime but with her pay, we cant survive, so we're literally having to ration our food, making sure our one year old daughter is well fed and has everything she needs. (and on top of that have to pay bills etc etc)
I feel useless in the fact that I cant provide for my family. Going fulltime soldier has its advantages and disadvantages.
And I have extensively talked these over with my spouse given our current situation. Her argument is that she never wanted to be the "Army Wife", and only getting to see me 2 days out of the month or 2 weeks out of the whole year is impossible for her to handle, especially when we have a kid so young as ours. I've constantly told her that thats what she was to expect when she married me. But I know that there are many other couples who have gone through this before and have made it work, so I ask for your help.
I already have given her a deadline date so she can make up her mind, otherwise I'm going to sign my CT papers and go fulltime.
Am I doing the right thing?
I feel useless in the fact that I cant provide for my family. Going fulltime soldier has its advantages and disadvantages.
And I have extensively talked these over with my spouse given our current situation. Her argument is that she never wanted to be the "Army Wife", and only getting to see me 2 days out of the month or 2 weeks out of the whole year is impossible for her to handle, especially when we have a kid so young as ours. I've constantly told her that thats what she was to expect when she married me. But I know that there are many other couples who have gone through this before and have made it work, so I ask for your help.
I already have given her a deadline date so she can make up her mind, otherwise I'm going to sign my CT papers and go fulltime.
Am I doing the right thing?