Originally Posted by usmc-sgt

You need to prepare her for the absolute worst. Training isn’t the hard part. The others are right, if she thinks training was hard, wait till a few years of commuting and missed commutes. No one underestimated the work required to get there or the money involved, it’s the relationship side that is hard to predict. Luckily I came from the Corps and a few deployments so regional life was the best life I had given her in a long while.