When I see those stickers "Marine Wife - Toughest Job in the Corps"...it literally makes me LOL.

For the ladies who have these stickers pasted on their vehicles - do you REALLY believe you have the toughest job? 

Almost any version of a moto wife sticker makes me giggle. I've been known to take pictures with my phone and text them to my husband. 

i had a "proud marine wife" license plate and the kids broke it :/
but other then that the farthest i go is the gold circle one with the EGA, the one everyone has!! haha

i defiantly don't understand "toughest job in the corps" hello you're not "in the corps" your husband is! lol 

Yeah - and I'm pretty sure you're not getting shot at everyday, doing EOD, seeing children blown up due to IED's (like my husband did) etc.

You're a mom. And at times a single mom. You run errands. And you stress. Understandable that it's hard but "toughest in the Corps" - give me a break. 

It makes me laugh to. I mean after a while you get used of all the "tough" stuff and adjustments to corps, nothing should surprise you after a while and you just suck it up and deal. Sucks for the hubs that works WAY harder than me and I have 3 kids, lol 

I mean after a while you get used of all the "tough" stuff and adjustments to corps, nothing should surprise you after a while and you just suck it up and deal

Yep. This. 

Yeah you knew what u were getting into 

it's even better when they start saying how hard it is and how strong they are...before the significant other is even enlisted. that irritates me. 

I'm sorry, there are always exceptions, but most Marine Corps girlfriends really irritate the crap outta me. I have a friend who was a devoted Marine girlfriend for four years and didn't flash it in peoples faces, she is the only exception I have ever met. Otherwise, I can't stand those girls, and they are girls, not women, who go on and on about "their Marine" and all that nonsense. I.mean its great you are being supportive but its also obvious you are blatantly trying to get attention and pats on the back for yourself. And that makes me say ew.

Sometimes I catch myself saying we instead of he when referring to my husband and the Marine Corps. And I quickly stop myself. I do it on accident because I love and support my husband and we go through everything together as a loving team. :-3 but I would never consciously brag or say oh we are deploying. Because we aren't. He is. 

Oh yeah and the MArine girlfriend who says "my Marine" when they are not even in boot yet, not even a recruit yet, but a poolee. Those are ridiculous lol 

Yeah you knew what u were getting into 

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this. While I am not the sort of wife who would put ANYTHING moto on my own vehicle, and I don't lament incessantly about the life, I don't know that I "knew what I was getting into." I fell in love with a high school kid. I got engaged to a college kid who was going to be a commodities broker. He joined the Marine Corps during summer break and that didn't change how much I loved him. So we married and I uprooted my life and we started our new one together. Then 9/11 happened and our country was at war again for the first time in a while. I didn't know I would be married to a military man. I didn't know he would be gone half our marriage and miss countless birthdays, anniversaries, and other special days. I didn't know where our life together would take us.

But what I do know is that I'm neither in "the Corps" nor do I have the toughest job. 

Totally agree with the stickers making me laugh.

But I try and cut the girlfriends slack. We were all there once. We might have acted different but not everyone could have acted totally different. Some wives had to be those girlfriends. (probably the ones with the stickers LOL)

I remember going to a ball and some ladies in the restroom asked me "so who is your Marine". I told them, "I am dating so and so". They then looked at me and said, "oh your only a girlfriend, probably wouldn't last" and they walked out. I thought it was rude and remember to try and act different toward girlfriends. 

I have an i love my marine magnet only bc it has a dog that looks exactly like mine lol 

For some of you it may not be tough! I'm curious to see how many of you have been with your husbands since day 1 of his career? How many deployments have you been through? How many times you had your kids cry for daddy? It is tough, but guess what? I knew what I was getting in when I got married 17 years ago!! I plan on sticking it out till the end....I wonder how many of you are able to sustain the military life for that long? It does take a strong woman to go through life married to someone in the military, if you can't understand that something is definitely WRONG with you!! 

you know what bugs me..
when i hear people say "when do WE get paid" there is no "we" get paid...
yes it may go into a joint banking account but its money form your husbands job...
If I had a job I would never refer to my paycheck depositing as hey "we got paid" yes it would go in a joint checking and we would both spend the money.. but there is no "WE GET PAID" haha 

I don't have one, but I find peoples distaste for wives motard stickers just as obnoxious.

My husband has bought and gifted me every motard paraphernalia I've owned including the "I love my Marine" window decal and a Marine wife license plate holder (for a different vehicle), baby cammie onsies before we were ttc (that was his way of saying he wanted too, ha) my husband was far from motard when he bought those things and hated them, so I thought they were all sweet gestures. 

I'm curious to see how many of you have been with your husbands since day 1 of his career?
I have been!

How many deployments have you been through?
6

How many times you had your kids cry for daddy?
Too many times to count!

It is still not that hard, we have been married for 12 years. I'm not saying that at times it isn't hard, because there are times that it is. But that doesn't mean it is hard non-stop and is always stressful, like some try to make it out to be. 

I can't think of a specific instance, but I'm sure I've said "we" to my husband in relation to pay. It's just semantics and I certainly know whose job is whose. I've also referred to checks I've earned saying "we got the check" or the like.

Everlast - it does take a strong woman, but the difference is that many of us feel that the job of the actual Marine who is putting his life on the line and leaving behind his family is much tougher. I've been there since years before he joined, he's deployed a lot of times and travelled on other missions as well. We've not been married 17 years yet, but we are in double digits. 

I once was a moto wife, but I have never had a MC sticker on my car. The thing that bugs me the most is when someone says " you knew what you were marrying into." There are many women like myself that were married to their husbands before they became a marine.

Another is when people say " oh you have it easy being a military wife." , or "you have to be rich because everyone knows the military makes a ton of money."

It is blanket statements like the above that drive me up a wall. I usually end up smiling and walking away. Ultimately I know I don't have the toughest job in the corp ( because I'm not in the corp). On the other hand loving & being married to a Marine is not all rainbows and sunshine either. 

I'm curious to see how many of you have been with your husbands since day 1 of his career?

me :) lol My husband and I got married and he joined almost 2 months later.. Although he has never been deployed I have been there since day 1. But my husband did miss the birth of our first child. 

We were engaged when he joined, already had a daughter who was 2. He is my elementary sweetheart.Married right after boot camp. Two deployments. Does take a strong couple to last. So many of my friends are dropping like flies, it is sad to watch as we get closer. Statistics are already high as it is, but it takes work. 

And my husband is the one who uses "we" and not "I" or "Me" when he got orders to Florida while he was deployed I got an email with the title "we got orders baby!!!"

I think everyone is too upright about pronouns and other minute details to realize the rest of the world does the same things as us, everyone wants to say "we are no better than a janitors wife" but at the end of the day we don't reconize details that happen that are universal to marriage and family being unified in every form. only nitpicking people with a common familairity of being "military" wives. And that's what I think sets us apart from everyone else. We carry chips on our shoulders and care too much about how someone else's spouse or family is doing it. 

Be nice to them, I totally have that crap on my car, and in my house, no necessarily toughest job crap but way more "marine" things than I'd prefer. My husband doesn't say so but he totally likes it. It makes him feel loved and supported and only says it's lame because everyone else does. In my youth as a young wife I wouldn't have been caught dead in any marine anything. Now I don't care and if it makes my husband feel like I think he's so awesome I need to tell the world, than I do it. I could care less that everyone else thinks I'm dumb cause it doesn't really matter.

As far as toughest job, they're trained to do their job which makes the extraordinary just another day. I don't know about you but no one told me what the hell I was getting into let alone how to do it. I walk that some times dark and trechous path almost completely without assistance. I don't know about now but a million years ago no one told anyone anything unless you joined the wives groups and that was a mine field. It was also much easier to be a marine wife before I was a mom too. My husband leaving or whatever everyone thinks is so hard is nothing compared to your babies being sad or disappointed because of Dads job. In my opinion I'd rather be the one deploying and shooting people in the face while going crapy camping or whatever it is they do out there than be here to see the babies hearts break. Point, I don't find it particularly difficult but I shouldn't discount the fact that other wives do. 

My husband and I have been together for four years and married for two. We got married right before he joined and are ttc our first! He has yet to deploy because he works in data and is in a non deployable bullet. However, he is gone for weeks at a time every month, so its a different kind of separation but still tough. we do feel fortunate though for sure! However, I know he wants to deploy and I understand that longing.

It's a good life, because I get to spend my life with my soul mate, but yes the separation makes it difficult at times, but it only makes the times when he returns that much more special and exciting! :-3 he is a wonderful man and an excellent husband, and he will be an.outstanding father :-) 

I will say I have a a marine wife shirt but it was given to me. I have a few usmc shirts but I don't go around showing them off. I also do have a marine stick on my car that's says usmc but that's as far as it goes. I think women are crazy who say they have a tough job. Ok being a mom in general is tought but you really wanna compare that to the jobs our husbands do.

Ya you have a tough job when you deal with a crying baby and then get to sleep in a nice comfy bed at night. While some guys are deployed sleeping in cots or on the ground. Yes you have the toughest job please tel me more lol 

When I see those stickers "Marine Wife - Toughest Job in the Corps"...it literally makes me LOL.


Makes me wanna vomit =p 

And yes it totally bugs me when people assume the military makes lots of money! But I have to excuse people who do this because before dh joined, I was clueless about the military and I was that person for sure! I think it comes from knowing what people in the military sacrifice abd risk their lives, you assume they are paid a decent amount. Just goes to show that they should get paid.more! 

Yes you have the toughest job please tel me more lol 


 

Tehe 

how appropriate