You know you are a military spouse when...
- You wake up and realize your husband took the toothpaste to work.
- You HATE RAMs.
- Grocery shopping becomes fun at the commissary because of all the money you are saving.
- You LOVE deserts. The kind your husband wears; not the kind he gets deployed to.
- You do not own a "helmet," "bullet-proof vest," "flashlight," or "water bottle." However, you do own four things that serve those functions, but they have a silly name you can't ever remember.
- Your laundry is sorted into lights, darks, towels, sheets, and green things.
- When your doctor or nurse says, "You'll have to call Tricare..." your first thought is, "Is avoiding serious illness or death really worth the trouble?"
- You have at least three good stories of excuses a clerk has come up with when you ask if a store has a military discount. "No" would have sufficed.
- Your alarm clock regularly goes off at hours in which no human should be awake.
- You never ask why anymore.
- Your husband regularly refers to you as "maam."
- Though you try and try, you never can get someone to comprehend your husband's work schedule.
- You don't find it weird at all there is a gun just propped up beside your bed.
- You sometimes refuse to watch movies depicting the military with your husband because you know you'll get a lesson the whole time about how the "real" military does it.
- You firmly believe your husband's branch is best, but you don't really know why.
- Sometimes your husband speaks a foreign language only people in uniform can understand.
- You know you are a military spouse when you have to plan when to watch horror movies so you have your husband home the maximum amount of time after the fact to protect you.
