How does your family feel about your career?

Don't know how I found her (yeah I do), but we could not be more supportive of each other's career. She is a Teacher (1st Grade) and I am Emergency Manager/EOC Ops Coordinator. There is a slight age difference between us (20 yrs) but after 5 yrs together now, we know that is not an issue, We both get along great with each other's frinends and family. She understands I do travel from time to time (most recently this past June for 3 weeks), but generally for only a few days at a time. When she wants to visit her family during the sumer...I pack the car and send her on her way if I'm not able to get away. She loves to cook, and I help out...doing the dishes and cleaning up afterwards. When I have training or instructing on weekends, she gets it, and is extremely supportive. We communcate, we plan, we schedule ahead when we want to do something special together. And when it's planned, neither of us are hesitant to tell everyone else, NOPE, can't make, we got plans, maybe next time. We took out time (unheard of these days) getting to know each other before we took it to the next step, moved in together. She drives 40 miles to work and I drive 8 minutes. She wants to continue where she is (loves it) and I have no problem with it. In fact , we take make the big step OCT 11th, "We're jumping the Broom!" Oh, 3rd and last for both of us! Right now we haven't made up our mind if we're going to Darlington or Talladega for our NASCAR Race of the year. Most likely Darlington, she's driven Talladega (169MPH) a couple years ago.

My parents were very supportive when I enlisted, but that was a much different world than today. I was also very fortunate after I married; my wife assimilated well into the military life style and to be quite honest, when I retired in 2006, she wasn't really ready for it to end. Now my children are grown and both appreciate the experiences that they had as a result of being 'Army Brats' and my son is now Active Duty Army. I realize this may not be typical, but that's my story.