My boyfriend and I have several years of history together and it tanked. We decided to get back together when he finished boot camp for the USMC. That was almost a year ago. A couple months ago I found out he was cheating for at least three months of our relationship. Not just hook ups, a full blown other relationship. It doesn’t help that the person he cheated with was also a marine. For context: I found out by contacting her from pure gut. Not by him telling me. But, I decided to stay, it hasn’t been easy but It is just the decision we made. Now he’s in the fleet which means our long distance relationship isn’t so strained, but I can’t help but ask. Anyone with experience with military relationships have advice? Or just relationships in general?? How to navigate this in a healthy way going down the road? I don’t doubt that he loves me, but being that it’s a long distance, military relationship, on top of healing from his cheating, how do we go about this in a healthy way? I don‘t have great role models for this and don’t know anyone personally who has dealt with a similar situation. I’m young, he’s young, but we have known each other since we were kids and I would like to make this work and not read into the military cheating stereotypes although I have lived it.


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