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Howdy all,My wife will graduate nursing school here in Colorado Springs, CO at PPCC next May. She has told me that she doesn't want to work in the Springs because they don't pay nurses right out of school very well. I have asked her if she has looked up in Denver and she hasn't. I am also in the USAF active duty and I don't retire until Dec 09. After that I have told her I would move anywhere she wants to work. So I am being proactive and trying to find out from anyone that can help me where is the best place to go to find out about nursing jobs in Denver for nurses right out of school? Also, what is the pay scale like there? She has been thinking about going to Phoenix, AZ area because she has family there to work right out of school. Is that a better area than Denver? The thing is we also have three kids, my USAF committment, so she would be living with family and I would be here with the kids. I am trying to get all the info I can together so that I can show her that she doesn't have to leave right after school to work and to just wait three years for me to retire....thanks,

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whoa time out!!!!! i just got out of the military a couple of years ago after spending six years active duty in the military. i had both of my kids during the last couple of years so i do have a small clue of what i am talking about :rolleyes:. by the way i am a girl also :wink2:.

my husband who i was not married to at the time kept the kids while i was out to sea. i of course realize that fathers are just as capable of taking care of their kids just as well as mothers. i did not mean to imply otherwise.

however, i think the main point of my post may have been missed. although this is 2006 there is still a natural tendency for mothers to want to raise their kids except in extenuating circumstances. all i am trying to say is the original poster's wife seems like she has something else going on that he is not telling us or she is not telling him. as i tried to state before i can totally understand if the wife wants to get away from him and move in with her family. i just don't understand why she would move to be with her family and leave her kids behind.

no harm, no foul and i agree with you in the maternal instinct area. it doesn't always work that way, but i'm sure, statistically, you're right.

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First of all, congratulations on staying sober for one year. I am very proud of you and pray you will have 50+ years of sobriety.

You need to stay in counseling and continue doing what ever your counselor says, as long as it's legal and moral! (and doesn't transfer your addictive personality to another addiction)

Your wife needs counseling for herself! It's great that she goes with you to work on your couple isssues, but she has many issues that need to be addressed without you in the room!

Question: how are the kids? Do they know? Are they in counseling?

Prepare yourself for the possibility that your wife returned to school to give herself the option to leave you when she graduates. Again, I don't know you or your circumstances, but they hit pretty close to home, if you know what I mean.

I appreciate your candor and transparency, especially regarding the most difficult addiction there is. It also has the largest number of addicts. I am so glad you are an ex-addict now!

Know that many who read this forum are cheering you on from the side lines and praying your marriage survives.

Huh??? Did I miss something here somehow? I have looked back over the prev posts and haven't seen anything mentioned by the OP about having an addiction. Was it mentioned in a PM perhaps? :confused:

Without a complete understanding of the situation, I do have to say that my first thought when reading the OPs original post, was that your wife may have gone to nursing school to have the ability to support herself on her own afterwards. I know that many of the ppl I went to nursing school with yrs ago, went to school for that very reason. Good Luck to you, I hope things work out for you.

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Huh??? Did I miss something here somehow? I have looked back over the prev posts and haven't seen anything mentioned by the OP about having an addiction. Was it mentioned in a PM perhaps? :confused:

Very oddly, the post where the OP admits he is a sex addict seems to have vanished. I didn't think that was possible. But I did read it.

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There are 2 sides to every story guys! I'm not saying that one side is wrong and the other is not but I don't really think this is the proper forum for this type of discussion. I would not want my husband dicussing serious marital issues on this type of site. Or any other site for that matter. This lady, one of our sisters, may be a member of this site and find everyone discussing her marriage or she may join the site soon. How would you feel if you were in her shoes and found your husband discussing private marital issues w/ all of us? We are here to offer advice, I agree, but I think we are operating outside our "scope of practice". We are not being fair to this woman.

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Someone wrote on this forum that the average in AZ is 24.00. I am not sure if that is with or without differentials. Hopefully someone can enlighten.

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Um this man said he was a sex addict?????? Well duh, no wonder she acts how she does. She has probably been hurt so many times by this man who is supposed to be her husband and be faithful to her that she probably just can't forgive him. Maybe that is why she is not into the church thing. It's hard to be in church when you harbor hate for someone...and I bet a part of her hates him. Their marriage is probably too far gone to ever be saved. I know if it happened to me I could never feel the same love again. Yeah she probably is in nursing so she can leave him. Boy, she must be terrribly stressed....nursing school, marriage problems, 3 kids, one with a disability. People do change, but sometimes it's just too late.

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I still wish the OP and his wife the best. I am happy he was happy to turn things around, FOR HIS own sake.

Even if his wife makes another decision, your life change is NOT in vain.

Jeremiah 29 verse 11.

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Yes, my 14yrs sex addiction have caused her tremendous pain, hurt, anger, shame but according to our counselor she has alot of co-dependecy issues and is what they call a "love addict". I just want her to been "honest" and up front with me so I can move on with my life. quote]

is this the post that you guys are referring to? it's not erased, here it is, with him admitting that he's a sex addict.

good luck, hubby. :)

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Yes, my 14yrs sex addiction have caused her tremendous pain, hurt, anger, shame but according to our counselor she has alot of co-dependecy issues and is what they call a "love addict". I just want her to been "honest" and up front with me so I can move on with my life.

is this the post that you guys are referring to? it's not erased, here it is, with him admitting that he's a sex addict.

good luck, hubby. :)

No, there was an earlier one which made the original reference to the problem. I didn't think posts ever got deleted, but I guess they do.

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No, there was an earlier one which made the original reference to the problem. I didn't think posts ever got deleted, but I guess they do.

I've been reading this post from the begiinning and that's when he made mention of his addiction.

In reference to someone talking about this man discussing private marriage business on here... This probably is just me, but I think it's a little weird two men have recently come to this forum to do just that. (The last one was about his wife's drug addiction and her stealing meds.) Is it just that people find nurses easy to talk to, or what? I mean, I think it's really cool people feel they can open up a bit in here under psuedo-anonimity and we can all offer our advice and opinions. It seems weird, though, to have two men who are so open about their problems in such a short period of time, both who seem to be receiving the short end of the marriage stick. (I'm sure if their wives posted, they'd appear to be on the other short end of the stick! It's that old "perspective" problem.)

I haven't been around this board long enough to know. Is this a common occurence?

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I've been reading this post from the begiinning and that's when he made mention of his addiction.

Not to belabor the point, but this is post #21:

First of all, congratulations on staying sober for one year. I am very proud of you and pray you will have 50+ years of sobriety.

And this is post #23:

I hope you continue with counseling and receiving the help you need. But it sounds like your wife is finished with your marriage. She probably cannot get over the 14 years of living with your addiction. She is also probably making excuses she thinks you will believe inorder to leave without hurting your feelings too much.

And this is post # 25:

Yes, my 14yrs sex addiction have caused her tremendous pain, hurt, anger, shame but according to our counselor she has alot of co-dependecy issues and is what they call a "love addict".

Either we have some really psychic nurses here or there's an earlier post that's gone missing.

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Not to belabor the point, but this is post #21:

And this is post #23:

And this is post # 25:

Either we have some really psychic nurses here or there's an earlier post that's gone missing.

Ok. I see what you're saying. I wasn't looking at it like that.

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