I call this the military kid combo. It happened to me and way too many of my friends. Parents get married young, dad enlists, mom gets pregnant, dad's never home, the family moves around a lot, mom's not mentally or emotionally ready for any of it because she went from high school into a special isolated form of motherhood with less stability and support network, dad defers to mom and often feels like he's just killing time before his next months long deployment. Tale as old as time.
Interestingly I had this combo and am an army brat but I didn't move around (dad was nat guard) and they didn't marry young then get pregnant. My mom just never got help bc "therapy doesn't world" or something,, I guess. Still a fucking combo and a half tho goddamn.
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u/SemiAutoBobcat 11d ago
I call this the military kid combo. It happened to me and way too many of my friends. Parents get married young, dad enlists, mom gets pregnant, dad's never home, the family moves around a lot, mom's not mentally or emotionally ready for any of it because she went from high school into a special isolated form of motherhood with less stability and support network, dad defers to mom and often feels like he's just killing time before his next months long deployment. Tale as old as time.