I am in the process of joining the air force. My parents are enraged. My mother has even threatened to call my recruiter and tell him lies about me. What can I do to get them to back off?
My parents do not want to be on their own. They are divorced from each other and have never lived alone in their lives. My sister lives with my mother while I live with my father. My father himself was in the air force and loved it. I lived on a military base for six years. But my parents are trying to bribe me out of it, guilt trip me, scream at me, cuss me, degrade me etc. I am beyond fed up. I just wish they would show me a little support.
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Nothing. They’ll do what they want to do. If you have a good relationship with your recruiter, then he/she will know that they are lies and will continue to help you.
I’m sure they are just afraid given all the negative media coverage our military seems to get lately. Although I’d be very proud, I’d still be afraid for my son’s safety if he told me he was joining the military. Try to be understanding and explain good points about the Air Force. Your father should be easier to persaude. Listen to their fears and talk it out with them. They wouldn’t be enraged if they didn’t care about you and love you very much. I’m sure they think they are looking out for your safety.
I would enlist. Do it. Really if there any negatives you may have heard it is coming from mainly places like this site that is thick with loud anti military/ war, liberals. They may seem like the majority opinion on Fluther but they are only loud. Most thinking people don’t behave that way in the US. You can have a good life in the military. I bet your parents will get used to the idea so do what YOU want.
When I lived near Ft. Bragg, and Pope Air Force Base in NC, I made many friends with the Special Ops men and their wives as well as many Air Force families. I have nothing but respect for these guys.
They had wonderful lives, good pay and many perks. But most of the people I knew had a few years under their belts and were officers. They told about starting out in the military and shared many stories. Everyone I knew would have done it again in a heartbeat. I’m a 49 year old woman, so I speak from the heart of a mother being concerned for her child.
IMHO, I think it is a natural reaction, to be concerned about your son joining the military, especially in light of some of the foreign policy measures we’ve seen with the current administration. It’s an honorable profession.
Thank you all very much! My mother has lightened up a lot about it since I posted this, but my father hasn’t. I understand that they are worried but it is my life and I want to do this more than anything!
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