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“If you deny me in front of your friends I will deny you in front of my father”
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Military Man’s Promise: I cannot promise you every night of my life. I cannot promise to be beside you for every difficult moment, every trial, and every hardship. In truth, I can promise you that I will not be with you for most. I will leave you at inconvenient times. Any special date to us may be tainted with the anniversary of the death of one of my friends. I will ask you to take over whatever… life we have built together for months and years at a time. And will then crash back into that life that you have used your sweat, your tears and your heartache to keep together, and try to take it back as I knew it before. I will shut you out at times because it will be the best way for me to hold it together at that moment. I will lie to you. I will tell you I don’t know things when I do. I will not always tell you where I am going, when I will be back, or who I am with. I may not call you for weeks and months and you will not be able to call me. You will ask questions that I won’t answer. You will know answers to questions that you will hope you never need. I will share things with my brothers that you will never understand. They will know things about me that you never will. They will be a support to me in some things that you cannot be. I will miss birthdays. I will miss anniversaries. I may need time to process things that seem natural to everyone else. It will seem that someone - or something - will always take precedence over you. I will uproot you and ask you to re-establish our family anywhere in the world, in any season, at any time - over and over again. Sand and mud will be tracked through your halls from the boots I am too tired to take off. I will leave you when you beg me not to. I will stand at attention while you cry beside me. I will not turn my head and I will walk away. I will knowingly break your heart. And I will do it again - and again. I cannot promise you all of me. I cannot promise you much of anything. But if you will have me, I can promise that as I march away from you, it is not without sharing your heartache. I promise you that every time I break your heart I will be breaking mine. Every time that I cannot answer you I will be protecting you. Whenever you want to call and you have no number to dial, I will be wanting to do the same. I will protect everything that we have created together with every fiber of my being while you do the same back at home. I will honor you in everything - every moment that we are apart and every moment that I am with you. I will fight harder and push further knowing that I do so for you. And I will carry you with me in everything, until my boots once again sit just inside our door.
People sometimes wonder why are we so proud of being a Marine girlfriend/fiancee/wife. Well let me tell you that we are not only proud of them because they are one of the few and the proud, but we are also proud of that love that exists between us. A love that wins any battle that we have to fight. When he went through bootcamp, that girl was the one who made sure to write to him every night to remind him that he was strong enough to go through anything and that she will support him no matter what, that girl was the one crying every night because she had no one to share her day with, that girl was the one wishing she could hug her man and whisper in his ear how much she loves him every time she could, that girl is a strong girl whose deadliest weapon is LOVE. Then when he came home for those 10 days, she cherished every second next to him, listening to his heartbeat as if it was the one and only song that exists. Making sure to remind him that she is there with him through every step of the way. But this is just the beginning. He’s afraid to lose her because he has to leave again, and she reminds him that she will stay true to him no matter the distance, no matter the time. And so she does. She waits and waits, until the day that she doesn’t have to say goodbye anymore, praying every night for the love of her love to be safe, for an unexpected phone call that would make her the happiest woman on earth…
So next time you feel like judging us, think about it twice…
Semper Fidelis <3
