There's another time in life when it helps to have the support of the community to call upon - when you're older. I fractured my ankle in May while my partner was spending 6 weeks in England visiting his daughter. My girlfriend network stepped up to take care of me in those early weeks when I was completely unable to get around except on a knee cart.
I always encourage my younger friends to nurture their friend networks. You would not believe how invaluable they become as you age!
So true, and when we both got out of the military, I expected civilian life to be similar — hahahahaha. My husband was sent off to a training school hundreds of miles away, we had 3 ft of snow and I called his supervisor asking if someone could come help me dig out the garage so I could take my son to school and go to work. “Why are you calling me?” — goodness, I can’t tell you the number of times we would have run to help a military family member if her husband was deployed and she needed something. I missed it for many years, now I am used to people simply not caring.
There's another time in life when it helps to have the support of the community to call upon - when you're older. I fractured my ankle in May while my partner was spending 6 weeks in England visiting his daughter. My girlfriend network stepped up to take care of me in those early weeks when I was completely unable to get around except on a knee cart.
I always encourage my younger friends to nurture their friend networks. You would not believe how invaluable they become as you age!
So true, and when we both got out of the military, I expected civilian life to be similar — hahahahaha. My husband was sent off to a training school hundreds of miles away, we had 3 ft of snow and I called his supervisor asking if someone could come help me dig out the garage so I could take my son to school and go to work. “Why are you calling me?” — goodness, I can’t tell you the number of times we would have run to help a military family member if her husband was deployed and she needed something. I missed it for many years, now I am used to people simply not caring.