Lesley Ure – Being a Naval wife has been a positive experience

I suppose my experience of being a Naval wife on the whole has been very positive.

My husband and I, we would not have the relationship that we have had it not been for that. I know it’s challenging and believe me at the time, when the boys were babies, it was so, so stressful, you’re exhausted and you know you just don’t have that same support.

There’s massive highs and lows. It’s like an emotional rollercoaster, and do you know what, if you don’t have those lows, you’re just … I feel for me that’s made us stronger.

We’re very close, we appreciate each other, we’ve never taken each other for granted. Every time we come home from somewhere, a holiday, I’m so appreciative that we’re coming home together because usually if we went away somewhere as a family, that was because he was due to go away.

So, there’s still these things, these habits I suppose or these emotional responses that you build up that are very much connected to those experiences of being married to someone in the Armed Forces. However, I think for us, looking back we