
Originally Posted by
quarry206
I am currently over seas, as many of you know and we have talked about. here is a question I have based on a conversation that was part of today.
Myself and another male NCO had a talk with a lower enlisted Female. We both respect her as not only a person and soldier so we were trying to be helpful and respectful to her. But basically she has a husband that she married while on leave and he has not worked in five months nor tried to because he claims he "won't work at a gas station". So in the past few months though Even with the money she is making he has spent it all and put her into the negative. I merely said very nicely that If i were to lose my job, and be without a job. and took me working at a gas station during the day and taco bell at night to make sure my family was being takin care of I would do that. So IMO any man that is not willing to at least try to find a job because he thinks with the way the economy is he can only work at a gas station. that he isn't the type of man that will be there long term, nor the type of man she needs to be with. He will only bring her down. . . That you do what you need to do to live. having too much pride is a bad thing.
I felt bad because what I said made her cry.
Is that tough love or am I judging somebody and being mean ?