My Girl Back Home: Difference between revisions

** This is in his [[McAuslan]] series of short stories, and it is his MacDonald grandmother. His other Granny is old enough to recall soldiers returning from the Crimean War.

*** It may have been there but I do remember them being in ''Quartered Safe Out Here''

* A very extreme version is found in [[CIA]] spouses. They are often parted for long times and the [[My Girl Back Home|Girl or Boy back home]] often has no idea what is happening. Not to mention they have to give an extraordinary [[The Power of Trust|trust]] to someone who is after all a trained deceiver. It causes unusual strain on marriages, but in those cases where it actually [[Happily Married|does work]], it can be an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] example of [[The Power of Love]].

** Please note: Most spouses of CIA agents and other espionage officers actually get to go with their spouse on missions abroad if the place they are posted to is relatively safe and (if they have kids) have relatively good schools. After all, "cover" basically means [[Spy From Weights and Measures|lying about your job]], so as long as you do a good job of that, your family isn't at further risk of leak or of being killed (your spouse or Significant Other generally knows, and the kids will just assume, along with everyone else, that Dad/Mom is a diplomat or something). Agents going to riskier places (e.g. Afghanistan), however, are generally split up.