Lesley Ure – Experience of being a service wife

I grew up really quickly. I think, I had a family young.

When I first met my husband, I suppose I was, obviously he wasn’t my husband then but I allowed him to make most of the decisions, so relating to finances, or what we did, you know I think … there’s a 7 ½ years age gap and I think that I felt that I didn’t have the experience to make perhaps some of the life decisions but that soon changes because you’re left on your own, you are having to make decisions that you know affect your whole family.

You have to take responsibility for things really, really early on. I think it’s been really healthy for me. It’s taught me to be really independent.

I don’t think I would have had that if it wasn’t for the experience of being a Service wife to be honest.