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To not want my dh to go away this weekend?

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2luvlyboys · 24/07/2008 20:18

Or any weekend tbh. My dh has been in the territorial army for about 15 years (before we meet and obviously before our dc`s were born.) When we met I saw it as a hobby an interest. He has worked his way up from a private nto full corporal. He enjoys his weekends away and his fortnights anual camp and tuesay evenings. The problem is I stopped seeing it as a harmless hobby the day he received his call up papers to go to Iraq. He spent 6 months in Iraq during 2003/04. Again before the dcs were born. He works very long hours and very rarely gets weekends off although he does get days of in the week. All this means that the support I used to give him is getting less and less particularly since the dcs were born. Our youngest is 8 months and still doesn't sleep well at night our oldest is 2 3/4. He did all the required amount of weekends and fortnight a/c last year although as I wes pregnant at the time (extremely so during his anual camp!) and his hours were even worse than they are now I was not happy with him going. Since the birth of youngest ds I have managed to disuade him not to go away for his weekends. However thi

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fizzbuzz · 25/07/2008 20:15

FFS I was only trying to sympathise with op. Didn't realise MsH that I had to know everything about the whole thing before I dared to offer my opinion.

I will take my judgemental opinion off this thread, as I obviously know so little.

MsHighwater · 25/07/2008 21:35

Steady on, fizzbuzz. Merely suggesting that if you want to express contempt for something it is probably better to establish first that it is contemptible.
Otherwise you risk looking foolish...

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