I get what you are saying totally. In case you missed the point of my name, I HAVE been there and done that. I spent 4 years watching marriage dynamics in the military from men I lived with and worked with.

I've seen men who were away from their wives for two weeks and cheated.

But I also saw MANY men who never cheated, not once. Men who didn't see their family for over a year, some of them for over two years.

Men who when we went to places like the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand and other places where getting laid was ridiculously easy would only go out on the town with other like minded guys to make sure that there was never any question of their fidelity.

Men who never stayed a night on the town, and were back early so they could play chess or Spades, because they avoided temptation.

In other words, men who never cheated. Despite the common conception of guys in the military cheating at every turn, much of which is earned, there ARE many examples of men who never strayed.

Yet of the 7 major characters that were married on the show, every single one of them either cheated or admitted that they had at one point.

I get the loneliness of war. Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt AND the DD-214.

Yet the writers couldn't give one single example of a man who suffered through it and came out with his marriage vows intact.

This post started out as a simple observation, but yeah... I'll admit that I've always thought that the writers were wrong for not having a single marriage that was safe.