Incoming Poll:

Just wondering if your DH/DF/DB were leaving for deployment and the family group held a dinner that same night after he left, would you want to attend?

I'd go for the support. Last time my DH left I tried to do anything and everything to be around supportive people and just tried to keep myself busy in general b/c if I stopped doing something or being around people for a moment I would bust out into tears and start feeling sorry for myself.

Yes, I would go for the support as well.

I wouldn't go. I'd rather stay in spend that time with my child(ren). Then after the kids went to bed I would get support from people who genuinely care about me on SOS :)

You think I'm kiddin'. I'm so not.

The last thing I'd want to do the day daddy left is hang out with a bunch of people reminding me that he left. If that makes any sense. It's always a rough few weeks in the beginning, for me it's easier not to dwell on it.

I'm wierd though :dunno

Yes I would go. It is a good opportunity to meet new people and be with people who are going through the same deployment stress.

I think i would go to show support, but even more, to get some support. Since everyone would be in the same state. I don't think I'd want like a formal sit-down big deal dinner or anything, but maybe just like a cookout or something that is casual enough you can come, and if you really can't handle it, you can leave and get some alone time. Also, something you could walk in to late, and definitely that you could bring kids to. I don't have kids yet, but I wouldn't want to leave them the day my SO left for a deployment.

I like to wallow in my own self pity for a while before I start leaning on others...so I don't think I would go

I would go to give AND recieve support.

I choose maybe because I would be too emotional.

Yes i would go.