For All My Childless Friends

My friend shared an article on Facebook that was things that that parents need to stop saying to nonparents. It was quite a departure from the standard “you don’t know anything because you don’t have children” articles that I’ve been used to my friends sharing. And it also reminded me, as many things do, that my husband and I are a minority in the military world. While we did get married young by the standards of my family and just about everybody that we know, but typical of military families, the one thing on which we don’t fall into your standard military family line is having children. In a world that is very family centric, and families are started quite young, we have crossed the lines of both time and marriage at a time in which it is appropriate in the military world to have started your family. We are Continue reading