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Will and I got married for the extra $1452 Navy pay
i'm choosing to comment on my own story because miketango obviously knew me personally.i want to set things straight for my readers. 1. i didn't mention my shore command because my marriage took place on the higgins. my story behind my marriage lies w/ the higgins. i didn't go into transferring to my shore command and all that because it really doesn't matter. i was representing me vs. and entire organization. telling a long story about transferring would have led to a lot of needless rambling. 2. my "affair w/ a married man"? you could only be talking about 1 of 2 things. the first thing, well, it's not an affair when the wife is OBVIOUSLY ok with things. affairs involve lies and backstabbig. a crazy fling of an 18 year old and a man in an open marriage hardly counts as an affair.i'm sure if you look up "cheating" in the dictionary you'll get some clarity. second thing: i don't feel that a drunken kiss with a married man who told me he was on the verge of divorce should count as an affair w/ a married man. it was more of me being naive and him being a creep. a if you want to equal that with someone screwing hookers or whoever else and coming home to their loving spouse, then that's all you. i'm not saying i was innocent and perfect. i'm saying i didn't have an affiar w/ a married man. 3. my ex husband is now happily married to....ta da! A WOMAN! :) 4. i took a lot of college courses while in the navy and am halfway done w/ my b.a. (how well did we know eachother? i'm wondering who you are.) 5. i chose studying for college over studying for advancement because i knew i didn't want to stay in the navy. i could care less about becoming a jo because....look, i'm doing it now. it's so easy to become codependent off the navy, but you do not need the navy for everything. certain benifits just help. jo a-school halfway through my enlistment would have required a long extension. once again, i knew i didn't want to stay in. 6. and for the record, my ex boyfriend was a great man, just not the one for me. he also tried to get me help for my bulimia. he wasn't "ok" with it at all. God forbid you have a son or daughter with an eating disorder. you'll understand the lack of control you really have. 7. and if you want to rationalize cheating and deception with "what happens on deployment stays on deployment", you'll be one of many. Do you see what I mean, readers? 8.i was never a corpsman. 9. get an apartment w/ other single sailors? e1's make under california's minumum wage. e2's and 3's barely over. i know a few guys who got an apartment w/ single pay. they ended up in debt and are still deep in debt 4 years later. 10. and who am i to judge? i didn't call any particular person out. i wrote what i saw. nothing in this story was fabricated. . to everyone: whether you loved or hated the story, you still took the time to read and comment on it. i am grateful to every single one of you. thanks soooo much!— May 10, 2008 8:27 a.m.