Military Spouse Quotes

“Military Wives—Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country.”
― Aditi Mathur Kumar, Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life

“An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’s
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention!”
― Aditi Mathur Kumar, Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life

“It’s the wide variation of women in our little shared petri dish that makes our lives never boring. Really all that we have in common is we each fell in love with a dude in uniform. The rest of it is a wild card. . . . Each of us trying to get through the day, the deployment, and the time in between.”
― Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

“The FRG … was the closest thing any of them had to family, this simulacrum of friendship, women suddenly thrown together in a time of duress, with no one to depend on but each other, all of them bereft and left behind in this dry expanse of central Texas, walled in by strip malls, chain restaurants, and highways that led to better places. Most of them had gotten used to making life for themselves without a husband, finding doctors and dentists and playgrounds, filling their cell phones with numbers and their calendars with playdates, and then the husbands would return and the Army would toss them all at some other base in the middle of nowhere to begin again.”
― Siobhan Fallon, You Know When the Men Are Gone

“If God really knows everything and He only wants what is best for me, then why do I fight being obedient?”
― Carrie Daws, The Warrior's Bride: Biblical Strategies to Help the Military Spouse Thrive

“Brittany was lonely. She'd had Dillon during Carson's first deployment, and when he returned, he didn't seem very interested in getting to know his son. Then, half a year later, he was gone again. The baby could walk now, and Brittany had gotten used to being a single mom. She would have to adjust her life to fit a husband into it again.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“What was it about the military that made us believe it was our duty to not only accept violence against our bodies but find pride in enduring it?”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“I was twenty years old, a military spouse, and now a caregiver.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“We'd become volatile, and we were afraid to tell anyone about it, both of us ashamed to admit that all the stress had unleashed monsters in us. We were supposed to be heroes. Or, at least, that's what everyone was calling us.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“I hadn't noticed until that moment that I'd been treated as a part of Cleve, rather than an individual human being with her own needs. I hadn't realized how much I needed someone to ask me if I was okay.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“That night, I wrote in my journal, "He may kill me, but as long as I am a good wife to him, it's worth it. This is my job. I am serving my country.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir