early days
I'm trying to decide what the most important memories are without boring anyone who reads this or overcrowding friends pages. Obviously, after we met, we dated for a while and then got married. Actually, we didn't date for that long. We got married 5 months after we met. We claimed we "knew," which is total bullshit, we didn't know anything and were just assuming.
A lot of my friends gave me a really hard time about it all. I can't really blame them; I'd do the same thing more than likely. But I "knew!" Um, yeah. So we went to the Outer Banks and I put on a dress and he put on his blues and all of the sudden I was a military wife. I hadn't even finished college yet, but there I was. The worst part was meeting all of the 18 and 19 year old wives who'd been married for a year already. While my friends didn't accept me anymore beacuse I was too young, they didn't like me because I was old. It was a really weird year. Between the time that we got married and I graduated, we both grew up a lot. We learned to deal with real money and pay real bills. We figured out who was going to do what around the house. Overall it was a really peaceful year lifewise. I finished school, he hated the military, but it was steady and stable. Nothing was going to have to change.
We did argue a lot, as I imagine that any two people who really didn't know each other that well but swore to love each other forever would. It wasn't by any means perfect, but we were both committed. We knew we had a good thing overall, and we were comfortable. Neither of us wanted anything to change.
It's when I graduated that things got tricky with our lives. All of the sudden I needed a career and had no idea where to find one, especially knowing that we were moving in a few months. The friends that I did have at Georgetown left, and Tim and I stopped hanging out with some other people we'd spent a lot of time with in the past because we finally realized how weird they were. As a result, we really began spending a lot more time just with each other. We got really used to it just being the two of us most of the time, and we were generally happy with it like that.
I ended up substitute teaching and loving it, which led to my decision to become a teacher. We'd had grand plans of our life in Atlanta, but as that 23 month mark getting out of the army day approached, our Atlanta life begame to look nothing like we'd imagined...
A lot of my friends gave me a really hard time about it all. I can't really blame them; I'd do the same thing more than likely. But I "knew!" Um, yeah. So we went to the Outer Banks and I put on a dress and he put on his blues and all of the sudden I was a military wife. I hadn't even finished college yet, but there I was. The worst part was meeting all of the 18 and 19 year old wives who'd been married for a year already. While my friends didn't accept me anymore beacuse I was too young, they didn't like me because I was old. It was a really weird year. Between the time that we got married and I graduated, we both grew up a lot. We learned to deal with real money and pay real bills. We figured out who was going to do what around the house. Overall it was a really peaceful year lifewise. I finished school, he hated the military, but it was steady and stable. Nothing was going to have to change.
We did argue a lot, as I imagine that any two people who really didn't know each other that well but swore to love each other forever would. It wasn't by any means perfect, but we were both committed. We knew we had a good thing overall, and we were comfortable. Neither of us wanted anything to change.
It's when I graduated that things got tricky with our lives. All of the sudden I needed a career and had no idea where to find one, especially knowing that we were moving in a few months. The friends that I did have at Georgetown left, and Tim and I stopped hanging out with some other people we'd spent a lot of time with in the past because we finally realized how weird they were. As a result, we really began spending a lot more time just with each other. We got really used to it just being the two of us most of the time, and we were generally happy with it like that.
I ended up substitute teaching and loving it, which led to my decision to become a teacher. We'd had grand plans of our life in Atlanta, but as that 23 month mark getting out of the army day approached, our Atlanta life begame to look nothing like we'd imagined...