Military Marriages are More (Giveaway!!)

Posted: 6 years ago

Military Marriages are More (Giveaway!!)

This is a sponsored post in collaboration with Lasting. All opinions are my own.

A military marriage comes with more challenges #sponsored. For us, it means more obstacles as we parent children with special needs and the burden of changing doctors, services, and schools with every move. For others, those extra challenges come from long deployments, frequent TDY’s, and the loneliness of being the new family on the block every few years and sometimes months.

A military marriage comes with more sacrifices.

It means sacrificing the comforts of home and extended family, it means spending more time apart in the name of duty, it sometimes means doing pregnancies and births without your partner by your side, it means giving Uncle Sam ultimate control over your family’s future.

A military marriage makes for more resilient families.

Through the forced moves, for months we are all we have. Through the separation, our love is tested and often grows. Through the tough times, we learn we will come out the other side, bruised but not shattered, scarred but not broken, because, through the duty to our country, we learn lessons anew in the commitment to one another.

Military marriages are more. We might change some of our circumstances, but we wouldn’t trade the lessons in love, we wouldn’t trade our lives, we wouldn’t trade this marriage built on a life of more.

Lasting is celebrating military marriages with a $10k VOW RENEWAL GIVEAWAY!* Healthy marriage is all about commitment and sacrifice, and no one understands that quite like a military couple. Lasting is joining forces with The Knot and The Big Fake Wedding to give one lucky military couple an epic vow renewal ($10k value!) to honor these amazing marriages.

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