Fleet Marine Life #129 – Sandwich
Military life is tough on marriages. With the man being away for most of the time, the wife is often left alone and driven insane by the loneliness. With both the spouses being away most of the time, this leads to a higher chance of infidelity and divorce.
Here’s a typical story:
The wife cheats on the husband. The husband confronts his wife about it. The wife threatens to take the kids and take everything he’s got. The husband loses his shit and pimp-slaps her. Next thing you know, PMO is over their ass like stink on shit.
Once that ring goes on that woman’s finger, there’s a good chance that she’ll become a different person. I’ve never been married before, but I have heard the same things about marriage over and over again. None of it sounds good at all.
If you want to get married, don’t do it in the military. There is a high chance that you two will be divorced.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2011/12/military-divorce-rate-rises-slightly-2011-121411w/
According to this recent article, the Marine Corps has a divorce rate of 3.6% in 2011. That’s for one year! Imagine the divorce rate in a 4 year period.
Beating spouses since 1775.
My neighbor was a SSgt. He hit his wife one day, got the cops called, she left for a month in which time he spent a lot of time at a deployed marine’s home. He’s probably a warrant officer now. After all, he had a good run time.
*dec 2011
I think that’s of marriages that fail in the first year…Like get married Jan of 2011 get divorced in 2012
There’s cases of domestic abuse committed by the wife sometimes. The funny part is that they move the husband out of the house, not the wife. Military authorities have no power over them..
That’s what happened with my SSgt, his wife was being abusive, and although he could easily have defended himself, he knew he couldn’t win if he laid a finger on her. So then she called the cops on him, and when they showed up she said the text-book crap and they had to arrest him even though they didn’t believe a thing she said. Gotta love Dependapotamuses..
It is ever so hilarious haha.
3.6% doesn’t sound so bad? D:
Is that a percentage of total marriages in that year or does it account for anyone who has been married up to that year?