I always told myself that I would never become a military statistic. My lesson learned from that was “never say never.” I would never get married in a courthouse. I was going to have one wedding day and that was all. The Air Force has brought me hard times and also the best thing that has ever happened to me. On October 4th, 2013 I walked into the courthouse and I married my best friend. When I found out that Jakes report no later than did not get pushed back until January my world crumbled around me. God really threw us a curveball on that one. I had two options. One, to marry him and then be able to spend the next year planning the dream wedding I have always wanted together or to spend the next year apart from him causing stress on myself and him, spending excess amounts of money trying to pay two rents and use all my leave flying down to see him. This was a decision that we made together with the support of our loving and understanding parents. My dad said “you aren’t going to get any closer being 1800 miles apart for that long.” So with our parents having our back and God by my side I did the craziest thing I probably will ever do. But now that I’m married to him I wouldn’t wish it any other way. If you call me a hypocrite for saying I would never do that I understand but if you can’t support me in the hardest and most stressful times I don’t need you in my life during the happiest. This maybe something the Air Force has forced me into doing but had I never joined, Jacob and I would have never met. We have a long road ahead of us with even more stressful times to come. I hope everyone can understand why we did what we did. I’m sorry for keeping this from everyone but we made this decision for us. I hope you can stand behind us like our family. We are still “planning” on having an actual wedding ceremony next fall but if you didn’t just learn the Air Force does what it wants and there is a chance that either one of us could be deployed during our time down in Texas. So if we can secure a date for an actual wedding ceremony then we will. It may be fast it may not be until we come to separate from the military in 2016, if that’s what we decide to do. We are going to make the best of the time we have together and I would love to tell you the date we are having our big day but I can’t do that with our job and duty to our country. The worst part is I’m not allowed to change my name legally until the government is up and running again. So I hope someone lights a fire under their ass so I can officially be Kathryn Lynn Cross! xoxo
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:57:46 +0000
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