How I ended up Married to Someone in the Military

As a military spouse I am always meeting new people and one of the first questions asked is, “how did you meet your spouse?”. I decided answering this loaded question would be the perfect way for me to launch myself into the blogging world: I meet my husband at the BIG10 school we both attended, however if you would have asked me in college if I could see myself married to him I would have laughed at you. I barely knew him. I didn’t really get to know him until four years later when we reconnected by accident.

When we meet in college my husband was enrolled in ROTC a year away from graduation and starting his career with the Air Force, I was a bright eyed teenager enjoying my first year of college and excited to start a new adventure. My husband and my recollection of our first encounters are extremely different, mostly in part due to the memory altering liquid that was involved. However, we are in agreement of when we reconnected four years later, I was in Las Vegas on vacation with friends and on my way to the airport when someone texted me “Happy 4th of July”. I asked my friends if they knew the number, and no one knew anyone from that area code, so we began to attempt to recall the previous week and the people we had meet. This was complicated because when we landed in Las Vegas we had this wonderful idea that we would start drinking mimosas in the morning and switch to hard liquor at noon.

I decided the most effective way to solve this mystery was to simply respond with, “who is this?”, it was a reasonable question considering it could have been anyone. Once he responded with his identity and the shock wore off we continued texting. Our texting turned into phone calls and eventually about a month later I did something out of character. I invited him to a week at the beach with my family. When I say family I mean, parents, sister, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. I figured we were friends(ish) in the past and there was no reason we couldn’t be friends now. I had just returned from a trip to Las Vegas with two guys that were simply just friends, girls can have friends that are guys, that isn’t unheard of…right?

I remember the day I picked him up for vacation like it was yesterday. As I pulled off the turnpike I had this overwhelming felling of, “what the hell am I doing, what if we can’t stand each other, what if we have nothing to talk about during the eight hour drive, oh shit this was a mistake”. Ten hours later, due to my less than stellar direction giving, we pulled into the beach house laughing and getting along as if we had been friends forever. I guess you can say this is where our “love” story began(ish).

Every spouse has a story to tell of where and how they became a we, it is something we all have in common. Military spouses are from all over the world, many of us have little to nothing in common other than our significant other is serving in the military. Our beginnings are as different as we are and yet they bring us together because they all end with, and thats how I ended up married to the military.

I would love to hear about how you meet and found the love of your life! Please share in the comments!