Someone mentioned to me the other day that there is no literature about the life of a military spouse written from the masculine perspective. That’s because there are so few ‘military husbands’ out there. The labels are all feminine — even the pronouns. In the introduction to Today’s Military Wife, fifth edition, Lydia Sloan Cline writes, “For convenience, she is used for the spouse and he for the service member, as that is chiefly the makeup of the armed forces.”
So I got to thinking: would people be interested in what I have to say as a military husband? If Sarah Smiley can have a column, why not me?
Now I have to learn about a totally different submissions process.
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