How do you define a "Sheltered" Life?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-09-2009
How do you define a "Sheltered" Life?
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Mon, 01-19-2009 - 11:39am
Thought I'd bring up this topic as some people think I have lived a "sheltered life" because I went from living in my parents home to getting married and not living on my own. I was curious of what everyone's definition of living a "sheltered life" is.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-22-2008
I don't know if it's the norm, but I know it isn't uncommon for the military to counsel with the civilian spouse before the military one signs on for an extra tour or commission.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-22-2008
I thought it was all about love. Now it's all about sacrifice?
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-03-2008
Tue, 01-20-2009 - 10:15pm
I think the problem here is that sometimes it is hard to distinguish someone who has lived a sheltered life from someone who is just plain unintelligent.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-03-2008
Tue, 01-20-2009 - 10:17pm
Arrrgggghhhh rickrolled by a cake!
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-31-2008
Tue, 01-20-2009 - 10:37pm

The extra pay is $225 a month for hazard pay. There is signing reenlistment bonus from 3K to 29K, based on position, for being in a war zone where 4000+ US men and women have lost their lives.

I don't know what Hazel thinks is significant, but 225 a month is less than we spend on TKD for our children each month, and that amount is certainly not worth the deployment to a dangerous region of the world.

3K to 29K may be significant for some, but my bonus pay, though probably a thing of the past in this economy, averaged higher than that upper amount for the past 5 years, and the closest I've come to danger was a recalcitrant stapler gun.

Extra pay my ... No amount of money would send me to these current wars. I thank our brave men and women for their service.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-03-2008
Tue, 01-20-2009 - 10:42pm
And that makes one!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Yes I have met a few of those too.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
I don't know--my dh was already in the military.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2000

You did not just say that!

You honestly think the military pays more than civilian jobs? What civilian jobs exactly? McDonalds?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Exactly. A total lack of "fruitation."

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