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trust him if u love him so much

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yar this be true.

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Me zero
Big bad world one

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My boyfriend of a month is going into the army. He is not going to be a soldier but he will be having a career in the army. He will be working from 9-5 coming home everynight and home on the weekends. I don't think it will work out because of the long distance. He wants to marry me after bootcamp but get engaged before bootcamp. I didn't want to settle with someone in the army. I would want to come home to someone everynight. I am afraid that they will ship him out for a few months to a few years even though he is not a soldier. He says he won't cheat, but I am having doubts because it happened to me before. He loves me very much and I love him. I don't know what to do. Can you help me?

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Just because he has a career in the army doesn't mean he's going to cheat. Someone possibly can stay THAT loyal for that long. Break it off with him or tell him that you love him and you'd be upset if he hurt you in anyway.

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Rawr.

your fears of him being gone are totally rational and all you need to do is take a step back, breathe, and talk.

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Indiscribable

Many people think love is always enough to make a relationship work in the long run. It's important but it's not enough.


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A Parent, old geezer, and occasionally right. Good judgment comes from bad
experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

You've been dating for a month though, a month is nothing in the grand schemes of things. It's hard to fathom talking about engagement and marriage after only a month of dating, don't you think that's moving a bit too fast?

From your post I think you're jumping to many conclusions.. like him being drafted, him cheating on you, etc. I know you were hurt in the past but this is somebody new and somebody you should trust if you are in a relationship with them. I don't know much about the army and how it works but I don't understand how they can draft somebody who isn't a soldier. But you should be asking him what the probabilities are that he will get drafted, how does he expect you to feel about all of this, etc. A 9-5 job is typical, I don't really understand why one would complain about that. But long distance is tough. It is technically possible and I hate to be a downer about the situation but they usually don't work and tend to cause more bad than good.

But it depends on your relationship, some people can do it, some couples just cannot. But yeah I think you should just talk to him more in depth about your situation. Let him know how you feel about everything, even if you think it will hurt him, it needs to be said. Listen to him, and take it from there.

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"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left"
-Marilyn Monroe