Being a military partner – whether you’re dating or you’re married – has its advantages and disadvantages. However, while your love and understanding as a couple may be the same whether you’re married or are dating, there will definitely be differences in how things go if you’re a military wife or if you’re a military girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are no legal or\nfinancial benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Married military men get benefits for their spouses and\ntheir children, but for military girlfriends, there are no such benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes things worse since even if you move to where your\nboyfriend is posted, you’ll need to start from scratch and without any help at\nall that can be quite a difficult task. Not to mention overseas postings and\nthe tremendous amount of complications they can bring with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Getting introduced to\nseniors and other officers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior officers often just take you less seriously if you’re ‘just’ the girlfriend than they would had you been the wife. A number of times, military girlfriends have complained of how they haven’t really been taken seriously by their boyfriend’s seniors and peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Military girlfriends at times talk about how when their boyfriend introduced them to ‘higher-ups’ they felt they looked right through them, not knowing that the two had been dating for a long time. You could stand by your partner through thick and thin, and yet not get the recognition you deserve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can’t live on\npost as a military girlfriend<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want on-post housing, you will have to be a married couple. Sure, you can tell yourself that you could just move to the area where he’s stationed, but think about how difficult it actually is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Military wives can obviously move with their husbands where\npossible, but that’s a luxury only for the wives and not the girlfriends\nregardless of how committed their relationship may be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Going on base will\nalways be a hassle if you’re a girlfriend and not a wife<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The forces don’t officially recognise your relationship, so it’s difficult to manage things sometimes if you’re a military girlfriend. A simple meeting at the base will be a hassle; he’s going to have to sign you in and out and even then you’ll find it to be a hassle with the guards. Wives have their own IDs so it’s not difficult for them to do the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being a military partner – whether you’re dating or you’re married – has its advantages and disadvantages. However, while your love and understanding as a couple may be the same whether you’re married or are dating, there will definitely be differences in how things go if you’re a military wife or if you’re a military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"Being a military partner \u2013 whether you\u2019re dating or you\u2019re married \u2013 has its advantages and disadvantages. However, while your love and understanding as a couple may be the same ... "},"author":3,"featured_media":6845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armed-forces-dating"],"yoast_head":"\n