worked with a girl that was in the reserve and got off on a good note but don't know if i should go this way for a relationship, help 😮💨
I'm a veteran myself so there would be no issues with it as I can understand the sacrifices that will be involved. You just have to be honest with yourself. The 2 biggest problems with dating a service member tend to be the service member's obligation making them miss time with family and moving around a lot OR personality conflicts since military members tend to have very strong personalities.
Reserves are different than active duty. She would not be military 24/7. She would be gone to drill one weekend a month and a 2 week training session annually. The only time she would do more than that would be on a deployment or if she volunteers for an assignment that gives her some active duty time. Outside of that time, she would be working her normal civilian job. Also, reservists tend to stay assigned to the same unit their entire career so it is not like you would be uprooting your life every 2-3 years to move somewhere new. That uprooting typically only happens with active duty. However, reservists and national guard do get called on deployments quite a bit. That is the time you would be most at risk of her not being around.
The only other issue, then, would be if your personality and hers mesh. That part is no different than dating any other girl.
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Highly depends since I have some views on been solider, my views are reasonable though so we might agree to disagree or actually just agree but have a different perspective.
Will she agree that not all soldiers are heroes since they are just also humans with their own intensions?
Would she agree that the best soldiers are those save lives not take them? And one of my most respected solider is Desmond Doss the one who refused to take a gun or kill anyone. Now myself ain't pacifist like him and would for sure shoot someone like Hilter himself but in that war you gotta remember a lot on the other side were just good people forced into a bad situation or brainwashed into the wrong thing.
Could she agree that a lot of war is mostly just because government want something for themselves while pretending to look noble?
These would be such things we would have to talk about first.
But if yourself has no personal opinions about soldiers I don't see why not? She's still a woman like any other.
She's reserves. I don't see why you wouldn't.
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Why not go for it as it is difficult these days to have that feeling with anyone...
Back when I was 39/40 my girlfriend at the time was a sergeant in the military. I was fine with it but I had to move for my job while we were dating and it became long distance. Even though she only lived 2 hours away, because often our schedules didn't match, we couldn't keep the relationship working. It more had to do with it being a LDR than her being in the military.
Like 90% of military cheat. So just don't go there. What will happen when you want to hang out one weekend and she can't since she has to go to training and sleep over with a bunch of sweaty men in bunks? And yes they behave inappropriate asf.
This is based off of what like 10 different people in military have shared with me. I've never heard any military I know tell me it's not true.
Well, that depends more on her personal character. Being in the military, she could get called into an assignment away from you for years. So many military folks end up getting cheated on by their significant other and the reverse is true as well.
@JoshMa I would never date a woman who serves in a military due to incompatible lifestyle.
Connections are not as frequent as you might think, if you had a great connection with the girl, why wouldn't you try. It could turn into a life long friendship.
Met my first girlfriend at my first duty station, love a woman in uniform, was fun trying to sneak over to the othe side of base at night. Lol
No the same as I wouldn't recommend women to date military men. Maybe she should but not the rest.
Yes, for as long as she doesn't look like a man - a mountain of muscles and/or male haircut. If she looks like a woman, her occupation doesn't matter much.
no, cause A: they don't have time and B: i'm not gonna marry a girl that's gonna be sent to war and die.
Nothing philosophically against it, but she might on a moment's notice be transferred and I am not leaving Newport Beach.
I would an IDF girl, maybe a few other foreign ones, but not an American one. No way! I fucking HATE American soldiers!
Yes I would, self discipline is very attractive to me,,,
There's one I would definitely date.
Yes, it means she is patriotic.
Nah. Too much time away
I don't know
I absolutely would.
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