Megan Ogle

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A Police wife is a woman who is married to a man who is “married” to his job, his partner, and his badge. A Police wife can usually be found cooking breakfast at midnight, picking up his uniform at the cleaners, and spending nights alone. A Police wife must be a good listener, not questioning him. She must understand when he goes out for a beer with his buddies, doesn’t feel like taking her to the movies, or has an exam to study for. A Police wife must live with shift work, lonely holidays, bad jokes, ulcers and alcohol, bulletproof vests, and fixed incomes. She is used to words like rape, robbery, assault, and child abuse. She is familiar with night school, stakeouts, overtime, and being on her own. Most women aren’t born or raised to be a Police wife; it is something that they have chosen to do. Some can and others cannot. She will spend each day learning, listening to, and loving a man that few people respect and most others hate. A Police wife makes beds, breakfasts, and love to a man who spends more time with junkies, hookers, informants, pimps, and partners than he does with her. She attends dinners, meetings, and sometimes funerals. A police wife watches as the man she loves grows old before his time, watches him become cold and unfeeling, but she will remain his wife and lover. She will always be these things to him, but she also knows that he is first, A Police Officer. When a wife kisses him as he leaves for work, she will make a silent wish that he will return to her. And every time there is a knock at the door, she will pray it is not the Chief of Police and her husband’s partner coming to say kind things about her husband, how brave he was, how dedicated he was. Being a Police wife means lots of trust, and worry, but when he says,”I love you,” it makes it all worthwhile.