Military Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Another Purging Question
Hi! My name is Marga, and I'm a new military bride (June 17, 2012). My husband left for Africa 3 days after we got back from our honeymoon and left me most of his stuff to move in to our new place. Among the boxes of gear, mementos, and old mail, I found all of the letters he received during boot camp. We have a tiny house and don't have room for extra box of papers, so I was going to put all of his letters and cards in an album. However, most of these are from his ex who repetitively tried to sabotage our relationship. Before he left, he had told me he had gotten rid of everything having to do with her. I don't think he was lying intentionally, the letters don't look like they've been touched for at least a year. I still feel bad about getting rid of these letters, especially since I wasn't there. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Re: Another Purging Question
Talk to him about it. Don't do anything with them until he's cleared it and please don't push him to get rid of them. I say this for a good reason.
When I was in Basic, I had a tough time for a while. I had several injuries and was recycled. The letters friends, family and other people sent me meant the world to me. There are some letters people from my grandma's church sent me and some letters people I don't talk to now sent me. Those letters still got me through a very tough time and mean a lot to me. The relationship may not mean anything to him anymore, but the support that was given and the hard days they helped him get through.
Thank you so much for the advice! I think I'm going to put them in an envelope in his closet to deal with when he gets back and do the album with the other letters so I can maximize space!
Honey, there is nothing worse than unpacking your house (DH was deployed when we PCSed) and finding your DH's wedding album, all the family pictures and the rings.
BLEH.
Being unemployed and alone, I did what every woman should do...I created two albums for my SK's, so they could keep have any of the family pictures and the rest were put in a small box for DH to deal with when he got home.
SD was extremely appreciateive (as her mother does not have any of these pictures because BM did not want any reminders of her first marriage). SS was 11 at the time...