My Other Family

I swear this isn't a bigamy post; but I have one partner and 8 wives.

I remember life in the corporate world. I remember seeing the secretary more often than I saw my own bed. I understand many marriages exist where both husband and wife see one another less per day than they are at work.

But at least they come home.

Some days, some weeks, some weekends, some months, we don't see our Marines. We can't count on anything approaching a regular work schedule. So we schedule time with each other. Today someone said, verbatim, "We are each other's family for this month. All we can plan on is that we can't plan to see our husbands on the weekends. We need to just plan to see one another."

It's true. The wives, husbands, and significant others in my Marine's company have become my family; a motley family of mostly women and small children and dogs. We have lunch together, we help one another redecorate, clean, take care of kids and pets. We have game nights, weekend tea, movie nights, and random pool time.

Because everybody needs somebody; even a woman with the perfect partner may still need a wife. Or eight :)