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- Being a police wife means understanding the sacrifice, the commitment, and the duty that sometimes puts our personal lives on hold at inconvenient moments.
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Being a police wife for 10 years, I have learned the unique quirks of this police officers wife lifestyle: how to find balance, independence, pride, building your tribe, asking for help, and preventing resentment for each policeman's wife. Here is what every police wife should know.
- Burris Party of 1. There have been plenty of times (especially when 109 was working night shift) that we were invited to events, dinner, etc. with friends and family that he was unable to attend because of his work schedule.
- Sharing is Caring: Communication.
- Taking the Back Seat- Sacrificing Selfishness.
- Do You: Self-Care, Hobbies and Such. It is important as a wife to have your own outlet. You too are a part of this job, and while you may not put on the Kevlar every day, you definitely put on the emotional armor to have your husband’s 6.
Sep 6, 2022 · Being a police wife means understanding the sacrifice, the commitment, and the duty that sometimes puts our personal lives on hold at inconvenient moments. Now for the fun part ladies, let me grab my megaphone: YOUR MEN ARE NOT EXCUSED FROM THEIR ROLES AT HOME!
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- Learn how to be resilient, especially if you have kids. A LOT of the time you will be solo parenting, and frequently it will be unplanned. Dinners will be served hot and having given up waiting for him to join you, glad wrapped cold, to be eaten when you have long gone to bed.
- Be adaptable. Trust me, that planned weekend sleep-in that you have had marked on the calendar for the past month will ALWAYS come after a 2 a.m. callout and your spouse won't even be HOME to get up with the kids.
- With respect to point 1. and 2., I highly recommend having a ROUTINE. I am up at 7 a.m. each morning with the kids and I am responsible for getting them school-ready whilst I leave hubby to his own devices for work.
- Resign yourself to the fact that you will not be holidaying when other families do. If you used to go away for the Easter four day weekend, remember the last one fondly.
- Being An Leo Wife
- The Good and Bad
- Life as An Leo Wife
- Navigating Holidays
- Date Nights and Romance
- Danger Around The Corner
- Fighting For Time
- Life on Duty
- They Come First
- The Kids
We've all heard the phrase, "There's something about a man in uniform." For those who have done nothing more than enjoy the view, there is a lot more to consider before making a decision to be a part of all the uniform entails. Being the wife of a police officer is not for the weak, self-centered, needy, clingy, insecure, or high-maintenance type o...
Being a police wife or LEO (law enforcement officer) wife as we are known, is quite an interesting life. Police marriages fall victim to an extremely high divorce rate, and there is a good reason for that. Let me start off by saying, just as in all professions, there is good and bad in everything somewhere down the line. It is true that there are g...
The abnormalities of an LEO wife's day begin with the shift. We do not base our days on normal hours—our days coordinate with whatever shift our LEO is working. There is no such thing as a standard eight-hour day in the life of an LEO or an LEO wife. In an average week, you will have several days where the end of his shift comes many hours after it...
Holidays, special occasions, anniversaries, and birthdays are just days you must be prepared to work around. My LEO works lake patrol in the summer months. For us, there is no such thing as the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, or Labor Day. We will never be available for the family reunion or summer picnic on any of those three-day weekends. If you wa...
Trying to have a date night is always interesting. You will wait longer to get a table where he can face the door. You will watch him scope out the lobby on the way in for anyone he has previously arrested, and you will not get through the meal without another officer calling his cell. You will be grateful if you can keep him awake after you get ho...
Grocery shopping or trips to crowded locations can become a game of "I spy a felon." You quickly learn the "aisle over" strategy. When your LEO suddenly announces, "Don't turn around" or "We need to get out of this aisle now," or "Wait, wait, wait. OK. Go, go, go," your instincts may be to want to know who we are avoiding and what the story is behi...
You will learn that even when you are having a really bad day and you just need his shoulder to lean on or his ear to bend, you may have to wait. And when you do have the chance to vent, be prepared to be hung up on, interrupted or only partially paid attention to, or heard over the noise of the radio, which never stops and is always heard first. W...
You will learn that a police officer lives his life on duty. There is never a time he does not feel compelled to be alert and, as the saying goes, "prepared for anything, anytime, anywhere." You will learn not to be annoyed at his repeated instructions to "Be aware of your surroundings," "Watch your speed," "Park close to an exit," and "Never let t...
Being an LEO wife means putting your husband first, not out of a sense of duty or out of submission or control, but out of love and respect for all he faces each time he walks out the door. You will learn to understand that being frustrated is normal, but being resentful and angry is not an option. Things that are a huge deal to most wives such as ...
My three-year-old son loves his daddy. You will find more "PoPo" cars in the toy chest than any other toy. He idolizes his father and, even at only three years of age, he understands there is something about what daddy does that makes it a big deal. When daddy leaves for a shift my son must go to the driveway and wave goodbye as daddy turns on his ...
Encourage the officer in your life to pack A LOT of snacks for on duty. The amount of equipment and bags they take to work is insane. And men thought women always overpacked. Haha! They (or you) will be ironing uniforms often or you’ll want to have a budget for the dry cleaner. Be firm in your faith.
Requirement 3: Relying on strength, faith and love to keep you going. If anyone says that this lifestyle is easy then they are lying to you. But you also don’t have to struggle going through life as a police wife. You will go through seasons with your officer and some will be hard and some will be easier.
