[winneythepooh7]

Being with someone in the military is a very stressful situation which often causes marriages and relationships to fail. I understand and respect a person's decision to be in the military and be away for long amounts of time. It is a big sacrifice emotionally for the partner however to be with someone who makes this choice. I dated someone in the military once who was sent oversees and it was really hard. You also realize (and I am not saying this necessarily applies to this situation, I am talking about military relationships in general) that after going through so many "honey-moon periods" when the person away returns, that maybe you didn't have as much in common as you thought, and also, a lot of people in the military often marry out of loneliness, and wanting someone to come home to. Just looking at the military in general, many people go in at 18 and get married not too far away from that age. I don't know too many 18 year olds in general who are ready to be married, let alone have kids. I don't know a lot of 28-year-olds who are ready emotionally to be married and have children. This is just my opinion, but I think a lot of times what happens is when faced with a situation of deployment, no matter how much one tries to "prepare" themself, often people just cannot handle this. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, it is just one other situation in life that some people can handle and some people can't.