I actually didn’t know because he couldn’t tell me. Months earlier, when we were still full-time college students, I realized how little I knew about the military, much less being a military girlfriend. [Sign up for Love Letter, our weekly email about Modern Love, weddings and relationships.] We were college students, sheltered and privileged in many ways. We hesitated to tell friends how committed we were, lest they write us off as falling too hard and too fast.

Source: New York Times August 21, 2020 04:00 UTC