Everyone's doing it

So here's the thing, everyone's doing it. All my Navy wife friends are blogging about their lives. I have a blog, I've had one for at least 10 years. I don't need this. I tell strangers about my life all the time. I tell stories about everything that happens in my life to people I'll never meet. I write about love and hurt and pain, and joy. I write a lot about joy, actually. I write a lot about him too. He is smart and funny. He is the kindest most loving man I've ever met in my life. He claims he doesn't have a favorite color, but I know it's red. When he's lying I can always tell because he sounds so serious. Sometimes he pisses me off, sometimes he makes me sad. He is my exact opposite in almost every way, but there isn't anyone in the world I'd rather be with. Oh, and he happens to be in the Navy. It's a minor detail. It doesn't describe who he is. He isn't my Sailor, he's my boyfriend. He isn't the Navy, the Navy is just his job. Of course I am proud of him, but I would be proud no matter what he did for a living. I would love him just as much if he worked at McDonalds. So why then when I read everyone else's blogs do I hear so much about sailors and not so much about people? I have met some of these men, and they are people. Some of them are smart, some aren't. Some have a lot of growing up to do, others act like old men already. I know Navy is a big part of our lives, but it's not all there is. I think we all get so caught up in the fact that our men do a certain job that we forget that they are more than their job. We forget that we are more than their job. That's why I'm starting this blog. I know you don't mean to do it, but you do. I know the whole point of this blog circle is to talk about navy life, but since when is Navy life? I am not defined by my love, and he is not defined by his job. I am still me with or without him. He is still him with or without the Navy. I find it quite boring to hear about the same shit on every blog. I know you ladies have lives. I've been there, I've seen you living! Maybe I'll never be a part of your little blog group, maybe I just don't fit in, but I believe that inside every navy wife and navy girlfriend there's a woman. Just a regular every day woman who has thoughts, goals and dreams of her own. That's what I'd like to read about, and that's what I intend to write about. Maybe sometimes the Navy pops up in my life. Maybe sometimes he's gone, and sometimes I miss him, but that isn't my whole life. It shouldn't be anyone's while life. That's why I started this blog. I don't need this, but some of you do.