Argumentative Essay On Military Wives

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Military wives Military wives are perceived as stay at home moms that sit at home all day and take care of the kids. My views on the wives of soldiers is that they are pretty much single parents while their husbands are deployed. The wives are expected to keep the house up and running by doing the housework, cooking, cleaning and caring for the children. People on the outside looking in may think that all of the wives are unemployed and living off of their husbands. The wives are forced to deal with all the duties that, are they are supposed to share as a couple. In situations like this the wife may feel extremely overwhelmed, but the additional workload along with the work that she was doing before their husband was deployed. The conduction …show more content…

Mariah was related it back to a time when her husband went on a long business trip. She all ways thought Military Wives took care of the children and did all the household work and that was it. She thought that most of them didn’t have a job and that most were stay at home mothers, which isn’t always the case in most house hold. A large amount of Military Wives have jobs just to keep them busy during the day while the kid are at school or the extra income helps pay some bills. She also thought that they could just call their spouses whenever they missed them or when they weren’t working and that not the case sometimes theirs not always a stable phone or internet …show more content…

Some wives didn’t have children or hobbies so they had to pick up some to past the time and volunteer to keep busy especially if they are far away from their family. While other’s had to find something to occupy their time to keep their minds from wondering other wives had incredibly busy schedules to attend to since the no long have that other person there to share it with. The best advice given was to trying not to worry too much and to find something to keep you busy. An idle mind has a lot of time to worry so stay busy and around family and loved ones. Whether it’s finding a job, being with friends and family members, staying busy, and keeping up with the children all are ways of coping with their loved ones being gone and ways to help with the newly acquired duties of a Soldier’s

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