http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/opinion/the-petraeus-effect-on-military-marriage.html?hp
MY husband looks more like Cary Grant in “Operation Petticoat” every day
— accomplished, senior and ravishingly handsome. Ordinarily, this would
not be a problem for me. Ordinarily, this Cary Grantness would be cause
for a skip in my step and a naughty gleam in my eye.
But this is not an ordinary week for military marriages. This is a week
in which heroes are brought down by their all-too-human flaws. This is a
week of women who look like Kardashians turning over their e-mail
accounts to the F.B.I. This is a week of military spouses — male and
female — being hand-fed humiliation by the person whose career ambitions
they supported for years.
. . .
I watch them and I am suddenly aware I look less like the buxom nurse in
“Operation Petticoat” and more like Mr. Grant’s co-star, Tony Curtis,
every day. And not the young Tony Curtis, either.
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