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Welcome Home Party?
When you or your DH/SO come back from deployment does the other person usually plan a welcome home party? Someone recently asked me if I'm having a party for DW. I hadn't really thought about. I figured she would just want to settle back into life after having been gone for so long. Am I perhaps wrong? After time away did you want to see everyone in one place at one time?
FWIW - if I host a party it won't include family because they are 3000 miles away and we'll see them at Christmas.
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Re: Welcome Home Party?
I would suggest talking to your wife and see what she wants when she comes home. I have talked with DH about it and he wants to just spend time relaxing at home with me and our doggie for the first few days. We will be planning trips to visit all of our family on the mainland during his block leave.
This is our first deployment and we weren't at our current duty station too long before he deployed, so it might be different if we had established a big group of friends that he wanted to see also. All I know for sure is that everyone will have different expectations of what they want to happen during homecoming and reintegration. You guys have to find what works for you and not feel pressure from what any other spouses/SM are doing.
Congrats on being in your home stretch!
Talk to your wife. Most I know IRL want nothing to do with a welcome home party. They want to come home and relax and be with their immediate family, not have a bunch of people fawning over them. Others don't really care.
Thanks! I will talk to her but I would safely bet that she wants a quiet week or so. Some friends from out-of-town will be around a few weeks later so maybe we'll just get a group together at that point.
I'm bummed I can't meet her when she returns stateside but it sounds like she just has to debrief for a couple of days and then she'll head this way. Less than a month now! :-)