About us

To start this blog off, I want to introduce myself a little bit. I'm a 20 year old National Guard girlfriend going to college while my boyfriend of 4 years works full time and does his National Guard thing. He's infantry and signed in 2014 and went to basic during our junior year of high school and finished up his training after our senior year. 

We definitely had our differences when we first started dating and it was a VERY rocky start. When we finally started figuring stuff out, that's when he decided to sign with the guard. He went in with the intention to sign as transportation but, after he finished I got a text saying he was infantry. That was the first surprise I had gotten through the army with him, but it is far from the last. 

As we started our journey through his training and everything, none of my friends understood what it was like not to talk to your boyfriend for 9 to 11 weeks at a time. Ok, that's kind of a lie. We did get maybe three phone calls each year for a few minutes. But, still, almost zero talking besides letters. I would wait almost 2-3 weeks to get one response. There was no way to have a conversation. It was like reading a newspaper getting the most recent highlights. 

Eventually we figured out a way to have a conversation. We would send a questionnaire type letter. It still took weeks for an answer, but at least we could answer each other a little quicker since he was never given much time to write home.

Times sometimes were tough without having him here. I went through some stuff that I felt like I really needed him and my only choice was to keep on going and I kept telling him that everything was going great, because I knew he had to be going through worse. He went to Fort Benning. They are nuts there! 

At this point I was turning toward the blogs and they all seemed to be about deployments and all written by seasoned army wives. It was daunting and I felt like my situation was nothing compared to theirs because their husbands are overseas and actually in war. My boyfriend was only in training, he's fine, right? We don't have to move across the country all the time. He's only gone one weekend a month and the duration of AT. 

But this is the exact reason I'm making this blog. I want to answer any questions that I found the answers to after years and just share some stories so you can figure out what might come up. Don't be afraid to comment about anything you would like to hear about! I will try to post once a week!