I've been married to my husband for a decade. I wasn't prepared as a new military wife for how long he'd be gone.

The author has been with her husband for 10 years and is used to spending time apart.

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• My husband was in Kuwait and I was in Minnesota when we received congratulations on our wedding.
• We've been married for 10 years now, but things like trainings and deployments have kept us apart.
• We get to keep our own identities while making time for each other.

My husband and I started our part-time military marriage the day we got married in two different countries.