agree with lafeet as well. besides, if you want to marry this girl for real, you ain't gonna listen to us no how.
hahaha, my thoughts exactly. The few Nuke-to-Nuke marriages that I know are still working (out of dozens) involve one of the two persons (usually the wife) getting out of the Navy. My Gold crew counterpart is still married to his ex-nuke wife, and they have 3 great kids. She was allowed to separate because she had kids and he was still a nuke. One other marriage came about because they met in Norfolk, after they had been stationed there for a while.
Its your life, but the odds are EXTREMELY stacked against you. Assuming you both make it to the fleet, you will encounter some of the hardest, and most stressed work of your lives, separately and possibly at great distances from one another.
Just do me a favor and print this entire thread out after you get married and keep it with you. Use it to motivate yourself and keep your marriage together.
On another note, I wonder why the Navy doesn't counsel students in this area of "life". I have a few Air Force friends and they were told, both individually, and in a GMT setting throughout their training about the "close working conditions" and the tendency to "find your mate"".
It would seem that the Navy would be able to keep more errr... happy Nukes if this were the case. Not to mention countless dollars spent on wasted training and lost man-hours.
But, anyway, good luck to you and yours and hope alls well that ends well.