Is it easier to be single or be married when your in the military?

what are the pros and cons?Is it easier to be single or be married when your in the military?
marriage is not easy no matter if your in the military or not, but if your in love with someone get married, anyway to the question. it's hard being a miltary wife, moving around, taking care of everything. they say that the hardest job in the military is being a wife.Is it easier to be single or be married when your in the military?
Single is definitely easier, to me at least. But having someone back home who loves you and is waiting for you to come back makes life a little better in a way, like I don't know how to explain it. When you have someone who cares about you it puts your job and what you do in the military in a different perspective kind of. . . I can't explain it. But single is overall easier, not as many emotions and feelings involved
Let's start with SINGLE.





Pros: You get money for just yourself, you get to travel the world without worrying about crazy paper work, and you can have fun =P


Cons: May not get a decent housing allowance, if you're lonely I guess that would be bad. When you have kids, they constantly have to go to different schools too whenever you have to get stationed somewhere new.





MARRIED


Pros: You get extra money for your spouse (For food and housing), you'll have someone to travel with, you can share your crazy experiences with someone you love =), your children and spouse all have free medical.


Cons: Pretty much the pros of single =P
Yes.





Seriously, both have advantages:





When I was single, I had a bad supervisor. I worked an assignment to Korea. I didn't have to consider any one else's opinion or employment opportunities, etc. You do get a smaller BAH but you don't need as big a place so it works out. I didn't have to worry about replacing anybody's ID if they lost it, etc.





Married: My husband is in the Air Force also, so we get the other's achievements/gripes and that's really cool. We make decent money and our expenses aren't that much higher than when I was single. Either one of us can get time off if the kids get sick, etc.





I have to say it was ';easier'; when I was single but more fun married.
I've been both and single is much easier - you don't have the worry or stress of leaving your wife and kids behind, wondering how the house is holding up, missing or forgetting birthdays and anniversaries because you are deployed or in school somewhere else. That said marriage has it's rewards - it is wonderful to go back home after a deployment and catch up with your wife and kids. Being single is easier but also lonelier.
Single more fun more treacherous, and you get tasked with more menial assignments while you get to watch married folks with kids have fun. Believe it our not you will have less freedom being single and living on base.


Married, now that I am out of the service I must say marry dual service. Your spouse will understand what your going through, and while you may have to deploy at the same time, at least you will both have job security and not a unbalanced relationship. Now that I am out I realize how hard it is to get any kind of employment that can transfer from one geographical location to the next. Honestly working at a day care does not thrill me-no retirement bennies there. One more thing, regardless of what you do, make sure you finish at least an associated while in. They do not tell you that veterans preference is outweighed by Joe blow off the street with a degree.
just opinion wise


the good thing about married is that you'll have someone to live for, sounds corny, but it may get you through, knowing that someones waiting for you, so in a bad situation - you may just get that little piece of strength needed to survive





the bad is that well if something should happen to you, your wife/kids are going to be in for some tough times, the chances of dying are higher in the military, so it will be rough on your family - especially since you're gonna be gone for months at a time. this may leave your wife lonely and if you have kids, its going to be hard, cause they're gonna be growing up without your influence





if it was up to me, id say its better to be married but its your choice
I honestly do not think that people should be married in the military if possible . I am a daughter of a veteran who saw war twice and a widow of a veteran .


I think people should wait until their service is over or down the road a bit ( as they raise in rank if they are lifers ). Too much loss and heart ache for a family in my experience .


P. S. Excellent Question -Star For You
I only have experience being married. Make sure you know this person and have a good marriage or relationship. I know more than a few broken marriages. I like having someone there to go home to at night. The seperation gets real rough though on both parties
Good question


its definatly funner to be single in the military
SINGLE IS MORE FUN





Vet-USAF