Wed over xmas leave in Intermediate?

[Brett327]

Since you have avoided the "are you married question" I would guess you aren't. When you do get married then maybe you can give advice!

You continue to make my point for me. Certainly I'm not married - that's no secret. I don't have to have murdered someone to give council on the perils of being a murderer. I don't have to be an AIDS victim to suggest that someone practice safe sex, and I need not have ever been married to offer advice on avoiding the common pitfalls of marriage. One could effectively argue (as I will now), that being married (this is the part where I talk about you) taints one's ability to be objective about the matter. I, on the other hand, have no agenda - only disclosure of the truth. Like I said, get married or don't. It's all the same to me. I only urge people to enter into it with a full understanding of the facts and not some idealistic fantasy based on how you would like the world to be in lieu of how it actually is - truth.

Brett

 

[NavyWife2001]

Again, when you get married, you will have a different view. Point in case, I have never flown a plane so I would never tell you how to with out ever doing it. I sure as heck would never go to a doctor that never went to medical school. Until you are married, you won't understand the workings of it or the common "pitfalls". You can read as much as you want about it, but until you experience the whole thing personally, then you can't talk about it.
You have ALOT to learn about life. Let's talk after you have been married 10 years. I am betting you would have a totally different outlook on the subject.
That is all I have to say on the subject.

 

[Brett327]

That is all I have to say on the subject.

If that's all you've got in the way of rebuttal, then I guess we're through. I find your attempt at ad hominem disappointing, but hardly surprising. Like I said, I'm not concerned about you or your views. What I am concerned with, and what I consider my professional responsibility, is to make sure that young service members do everything they can to protect themselves and to make smart choices. Divorce (among other interpersonal issues) affects readiness, so I would encourage all service members to fully examine their decisions through that lens.

Brett

 

[Crowbar]

I have never flown a plane so I would never tell you how to with out ever doing it.

You've also never coached a football team or selected teams for BCS games but you produced this doozie in another thread.

 

[Gatordev]

I think I'm about to stick a pencil in my eye. The problem here is that NavyWife is coming at it from the lovey-dovey, in love w/ her husband point of view, and Brett is coming at it from the "I've seen what happens in the x years in the Navy and/or on deployments." Let's see, on each of my deployments, there was at least one guy who got divorced out of 15 or 16. It does happen.

The question has been asked and answered. This is a mercy killing.