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Murphy's Law: A Primer

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If you’ve been around the military for even a short amount of time, you’ve probably at least heard a mention of “Murphy’s Law,” the theory that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

It actually has a pretty science-y history with some philosophy and math thrown in. But you don’t need to know all of that.


All you need to know is that once your service member leaves, I can almost guarantee you will get to know Murphy.


My husband returned at the end of October from six weeks on TDY to England. While it was a great experience for him (and us, to a point), it had been a while since we’d been separated. That means it had also been a while since I received a visit from Mr. Murphy.


Murphy provides an obscene level of chaos to the life of a military spouse, who is already coping with everything falling on her (or his!) shoulders. It’s doing the daily grind of what you usually do, like work, household chores, and caring for children, combined with what the service member may usually handle, but then throwing in a large helping of the unexpected.


He comes to visit whether you’re undergoing a deployment, TDY, or field separation.


For many military spouses, this is a car breaking down at the worst possible moment, getting the stomach flu a few days after the service member departs, issues with children, and so on. It’s usually something that just wouldn’t happen when the service member is home.


When my husband left, I had two days of bliss with my kids. Everything was going right, I was keeping my cool, my kids were little angels. Too good to be true, right?


Yep.


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