Day 202: Loving a soldier

1/9/2012

It is probably both the easiest and hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life, loving a soldier, especially in a time of war.

My husband was not always a soldier. We started dating before he ever thought about joining the Army, and we have been friends since middle school. I didn't fall in love with a soldier, but the man I fell in love with became a soldier. I know I am the luckiest woman in the world to have found such an amazing man who is devoted to God, family, and country.

Loving him has been easy simply because he is a great man and my best friend. It has been hard because of him being a soldier, knowing he has to leave us even though he doesn't want to. I know him being away from his family is just as hard on him as it is on us. The thing that makes him so amazing is that he does his duty to his country proudly and he does it well, while loving his family and being for them at the same time. It is what makes loving a soldier easier.

Making my way through this deployment one day at a time.