Today, Friday Nov 19 was the last day of TAP class. I went part of the week with the man, only to realize that there were 3 things out of 4.5 days that pertained to spouses(household goods shipment, TRICARE and SBP). So while there, bored at times, I was flipping through Military Spouse magazine. Have you seen it? I've read a few issues here and there in the past(got them passed out to me at Ombudsman meetings or the like). Overall, not thoroughly impressed, it's not bad but some of it seems, I don't know...just not real? I know that's what they're aiming for, having actual spouses as founder, writers, contributors, etc, but to me, it just doesn't come across that way...kinda cheesy for lack of a better description. But, it filled a bit of idle time while I was drowning out the speaker.
One article in the current issue caught my eye. It was called A Man out of Uniform. The gist of the article was how we all swooned at the sight of our handsome, hunky, manly men in their uniforms. We all admit there is something hugely sexy about a man in uniform. What this article was pointing out though was, that it's easy for the men to put on their uniforms and look good. Everything is more or less picked out for them, they just put it on. Voila! Super sexy man, just add uniform. Apparently though, the issue is that military men can't dress themselves in a presentable manner otherwise. It talks about a dress shirt and swim trunks, or striped shorts and a plaid shirt. And apparently, if you do see a military man dressed appropriately, it is because his wife dressed him. It even mentions if you see a guy at the commissary in mismatched socks, with a cart of frozen pizzas(and how men don't know what EVOO is), then obviously his wife is out town.
I take issue with this. In our courtship, I didn't insist the man only wear his uniform. I knew exactly what I was getting into when I married him. Not saying I haven't tried to toss out certain articles of clothing(and continue to do so...lol) over the years, but I married him knowing he had the shorts with a completely split crotch seam, it was no big surprise. I married a MAN, not a boy. He IS perfectly capable of dressing himself just fine. If you see him out in pubic looking appropriate, it's because he managed to do that all by himself. He can make multi million dollar aircraft fly, I have no doubt he can match his socks as well as shirt and tie when the occasional calls for it. The same is true for shopping and cooking...he's damn good at cooking-and he knows what EVOO is.
So today, I am thankful I am NOT married to the kind of guy this poor woman apparently is.
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