Military Nesties
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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.
Issues transitioning..
My husband was active duty USMC and got out about 8 months ago. It was a sudden decision, that we were not prepared for. Financially or mentally. Since then he has been at a job (that we just found out is a dead end) and has been looking for other jobs weekly. We've had to rent out our house and move in with my parents due to financial issues. We also live about 30min from our duty station, which I think makes it extremely hard on the both of us. Since we're constantly in that town, around active duty marines and wishing we were still military.
I know reminiscing and constantly wanting our old life back is doing us no good. Anyone have any similar issues/suggestions on how to forget how good we had it? haha
Re: Issues transitioning..
It's not exactly the same obviously, but my whole life, I wanted to be a Marine officer. I met my husband who's enlisted a year before I graduated from college. I was working with the OSO near school, and my chances of getting in we're great. My OSA ha
I would also suggest he look into the Reserves or National Guard. It will give him a chance to serve and put the uniform back on. I'd also encourage him to use his GI Bill to go to school.
What is he interested in? Are th
Thanks for your replies! We've looked into other branches and due to cutbacks, active duty in any branch for prior service is basically a no. I think he's coming around to the idea of reservist. At first it was a blunt no, I think because he was hurt t