You moved to the U.S. to be with your SO

[Krikit 1,165]

(((((((((((((((Carla)))))))))))))))))

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[Cloudy9 11]

I was in marital heaven for the first two weeks being the homemaker and then my world came crashing down around me.

9/11 happened, hubby was in the Army at the time. We both agree now that those first 8 months are pretty much a blur for us both. Hubby worked 16-18 hr shifts, we never knew from one day to the next if he was going to get deployed. People around him were getting shipped out. He didn't have one day off for the two months. I wasn't working and was pretty bored most of the time not having a car to go out and drive around. I kept getting nervous each time he'd tell me that he might not be here for Halloween, then thanksgiving, then xmas. Finally I told him to just stop telling me anything unless it was really happening. By xmas that year they had gone ahead and scheduled his knee surgery and when it finally happened in Feb of 2002 I began to relax as I knew they wouldn't deploy him now. He got out of the Army that year thank god!