His wife ought to get off her backside and push the lawnmower around herself, as I do, and did just after each of my children was born.
This is one of the things that makes a deployment harder for men: whining women back home. I have heard this from so many men, and I listen to the whining and helplessness in an area full of military wives. Grow UP, ladies! It's 2005! You can do things, make decisions, and manage your life without crying to your husband! Consider it your patriotic duty to be cheerful, supportive, and upbeat when he calls, without hassling him and making him worry about problems at home. Surely he has enough to worry about in Iraq.
Needless to say, I hate helpless girly women.
Hooah!! THANK YOU for being a strong woman behind one of my military HEROES - you are a hero too!! *HUGS!*
Yeah, what you said. My husband said it helped him to know we could take care of ourselves, as he didn't have to worry about us so much and could focus on the tasks at hand (this was early in the war, when things were even more dangerous). Not in a million years would I waste five seconds of one of his precious phone calls home to whine about ANYTHING. Whining on a phone call from Iraq about the mundane at home is IMHO unsupportive, wasteful, selfish and childish.