How Has/did The Usmc Lifestyle Affect Your Relationship/choice To Get Engaged/married?

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man?



its made us stronger, deffinately more appreciative, and way more in tune with eachother.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?



YES, everything is fast paced, these boys dont have time to mess around...you know well into it if the other person is a keeper..if you can deal with the lifestyle ect. and just how much you really love someone when you spend so much time apart



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?

haha we were saying it long b4 we were together officially...he was deployed...hahah and we do love eachother



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married? (if you are)

we arent engaged or married....soon for both though lol



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?

idk its weird yes chris is a Marine but when hes home with me i dont see him as such...hes a man a wonderful one and thats that.



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?

getting your first kiss, date, hug over and over and over again

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man?

It has made our relationship stronger in many ways and i think we have a better understanding of what it truly means to love one another especially through the really rough times.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?

We have been together a little less then three years and it definatly feels a lot faster our time together doesnt seem as long but it is more meaningful because we make the most out of our time together. But it does feel normal now because i have had a year to get used to the short periods of time we get to spend together



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?

I said it first and it took us about a month



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married? (if you are)

a little less than three years i dont have a ring yet but it is like a mutual agreement that we will be getting married in four months so if it makes any sense that we are pretty much engaged then thats what we are lol :). And when we get married it will be a little more than three years when we get married.



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?

i love everything about loving him his bravery his maturity his awarness of his surroundings his loyalty his pride his love for me i could go on all day lol. I love his uniform to it is so sexy and i love that we get to have our first kiss over and over again.



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?

I havent really experienced the USMC lifestyle yet but will be after his first deployment. I love supporting him and the pride i feel in the country is stronger now then ever. I also have a better understanding of what it is to have pride in our country and what it truly means to support our troops.

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man?



made who we are as a married couple today. we have had some rocky moments, and of course it's very difficult, but i wouldn't have it any other way.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?



normal? sure. moving forward into a committment has to be a mutual matter. i think that if it moves faster, then more power to ya.



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?



haha. i was a sohpomore in high school and it was at the homecoming dance! it took him 5 months or so. we were really good friends before we started dating. he's my high school sweetheart. :)



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married? (if you are)



4 1/2 years. :)



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?



that he's my best friend, and partner in crime. i would do anything for him, and the love we have is indescribable. :)



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?



just i guess the "brotherhood" of it all? i love seeing travis get close to people that know what it's like for us, that signed the same dotted line as he did to fight for his country...



if it weren't for trav, i really wouldn't be who i am today...

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man?

It has made us stronger and "closer" than we have ever been... not closer in the physical sense, of course, since we are apart from eachotherh, but in the sense that our trust, devotion, communication, and pretty much everything about our relationship has grown stronger as days pass. It seems as though the farther his body is from mine, the closer our hearts become.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?

I'm not sure about this one... I guess it's normal for many or most women, but John and I have been together for almost three years, almost 2 when he joined, so our relationship had already been very well established before the USMC and just keeps growing at the same rate it always had, nothing sped up or slowed down.



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?

Well, it took us 3 months to become official and 2 weeks after that, he told me he loved me (even though I had already known I loved him but just didn't say it! lol)



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married? (if you are)

We aren't engaged (officially) or married, but have been together for 2, almost 3, years... we have, however, talked about marriage and planned to get married since before he joined the corps, but there's no ring on my finger so that's why I can't pinpoint a time frame!



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?

I loved him long before he was a Marine, and my love only grows for him, so I guess one thing I love most is being able to see him grow from the boy I fell in love with when we met into this man that I still love, admire, and support. I also love how much I have been able to grow as my own person through the experience and how much we have learned about ourselves and eachother.



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?

The perspective I have gained and the lessons I am constantly learning, that I would never have experienced had I not been a part of this life. I see the people around me enjoying their youth and partying it up, and although I do have fun and enjoy everything about my life as well, I am glad that my eyes have been opened to realize some of the more important things in life that I may have taken for granted had my boyfriend never joined the Marines, and I enjoy living my life with this perspective in mind.

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man?

It hasn't affected us too much at all. We already had an insanely strong relationship before he went in. It keeps getting stronger everyday. The distance hasn't affected us much yet either. He's currently in Cali & I'm in Tx. We do miss each other like crazy... but we have amazing devotion, trust, honesty, committment, and love. Plus, we communicate very well. We tell each other everything. It makes life much easier.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?

I think it's normal. They are constantly on the go, sometimes not knowing what they're supposed to be doing until seconds before it needs to be done. It's only natural that it would carry over into everyday life and other situations.



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?

He said it first. He told me about a week into our relationship. BUT KEEP IN MIND....we knew each other all throughout high school. We liked each other for YEARS, but we were both too shy to confess it to each other until a few months after we graduated.



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married? (if you are)

We were together for almost 6 months before he proposed. We plan on getting married soon.



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?

I fell in love with him before he was a Marine. He's sooo much more than just a Marine. He is a completely amazing person. If I listed all my favorites about loving him, you would lose interest after a while because it would take up the whole page. But if I have to pick, ahh...idk. I just love him. Plain and simple.



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?

The time apart makes the time together sooo much sweeter. I will never take him or anything in our life together for granted.

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man?

I think because of the distance while we were dating we learned how to really communicate. If we hadn't been able to communicate like we did I don't know if our relationship could have survived.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?

I think things moved quickly with my husband and I just because we'd been friends for so long before we started dating and when we became a couple becoming serious came easy for us. I don't think it had anything to do with the lifestyle. Our quickie wedding was because of the Corps though.



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?

It took about 3 months and he said it first. I had kind of hinted that I was falling for him before he said it though.



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married? (if you are)

We were together 8 months before we got engaged and we got married 11 months after we started dating.



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?

I don't love him because of his job. I love him because of his dedication and determination. The fact that he gives his everything in every task that he does.



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?

Right now honestly I am not liking the lifestyle, I'm hating it. But that might be because I am in the middle of a deployment and I have been really sick (to the point where a doc recommended my husband be sent home) and I feel like I am deteriorating and the Corps doesn't care, which it doesn't. I don't know if I want my husband to re-up and so I am just glad that he's waiting until he's home to decide and that he's taking my feelings into consideration.

1. How has the USMC affected your relationship with your man? We probably trust each other more than the 'normal' couple, and the distance has definitely made us stronger. We have a great foundation for life.



2. Is it 'normal' to feel that things are moving faster, most likely due to the military lifestyle?

YES, deployment flew by, last year flew by.. we've been together 2 years, engaged 1 year and I almost feel as if I JUST met him like 2 months ago. This year will fly by, and the next thing I know we'll be living together! It's so insane. Anyway, it feels like things with our relationship have moved faster than the "normal" couples, and it just feels like time moves faster!



3. How long did it take for you and your man to say 'I love you'? Who said it first?

4 or 5 days, he said it.



4. How long were you together before you got engaged? Married?

A little bit less than one year before we were engaged.



5. What is your favorite part about loving a marine (in general)?

I don't love him because he's a marine, but I love all of those mariney qualities he possesses. I love his bravery, I love how I feel safe with him, I love his manners, and I love the way he thinks.



6. Favorite part of the USMC lifestyle?



We get lots of "first kisses!" Being apart for so long is so rewarding when I finally get to jump into his arms again.

Ok, before I answer, I wanna remind you we were best friends since my freshman year in hs, which was like, 7 or 8 years ago now. lol

1. If it weren't for the USMC, I'm not sure we'd be together. He was my best friend, & I guess you can say I took advantage of him always being here. He always liked me...but I was afraid to ruin our friendship, but once he left for bootcamp/MOS/all that stuff, I realized how much I missed him not being in my life. (well, not being there in the same town as me, you know..we still stayed in contact) & the Marines just changed him, he grew up, figured out what he wanted to do with his life, & yeah, made him a man I guess you could say.



2. Our relationship did move really fast. I'm saying it's part because of us already knowing every thing about each other, & still falling in love, & part to the military lifestyle.



3. He said it LONG before I did. lol like I said, he liked me for a LONG time before we got together. I didn't say it until a couple weeks before we officially started dating.



4. we were officially dating on Valentines day of 09, got engaged May 23rd, 2009, then got married September 4th, 2009. so yes, we moved very fast. lol



5. I love him for the man he is & the man he has become, & he says it's because of me, but I think the marines shaped him quite a bit. I do love the fact that he's clean, & knows how to clean cuz of good ole field day. lol he can't stand messes now. I also love the huge sense of pride anytime a patriotic song comes on, or I see an American flag, or anything along those lines. I Love his bravery, courage, & commitment. I love everything about him. & yes, you make a good point..he looks damn good in those uniforms! lol



6. The reuniting hugs are definitely AMAZING. I mean, how many couples can experience their "first kiss" several times in a relationship?? I love supporting him, & being his rock. He always tells me that I'm the reason he can get through every day, & hearing my voice or seeing my picture gives him the strength to do what he does every day. I love the fact that I can cheer him up after a long day at work, or after the NCOs are pissed him off, or his roommate (he had quite a few problems with him..) did something stupid. I love that I know that I love him, & he loves me, & I need him just as much as he needs me. :)