My husband is a construction engineer in the army. He’s on deployment nothing new. Every times he’s gone I worry (it’s natural) but I always tell my self he builds stuff, it’s practically the safest job in the army.

I just found out this time he’s working with special forces. Now I don’t know any information beyond that. I couldn’t even tell you where he’s at if I wanted to because I don’t know. (Not knowing his location is normal (opsecs and all).

And I kind of understood that doing construction meant that he would work with lots of different people in different situations.

But in my mind special forces are the soldiers who go into the most dangerous situations at the most dangerous times and is pretty much the most dangerous job you can have (aside from maybe the guys who diffuse bombs)

So now I’m realizing that there really isn’t one job or another when it comes to the military and deployments that is safer than another. That all military jobs are going to come with some inherent risk.

So what do I tell myself now? And how do I stay supportive and let him share what he can when he can without being totally upset myself?

Where is the line between listening and being supportive and ignorance is bliss.

Ps. Kudos to all the special forces and bomb tech wives. You have to be the strongest people out there.

And pss. Why can’t we just have world peace?