TEN WAYS You Know You Married a COP!

TEN WAYS You Know You Married a COP!

10. When you start an argument, he calls for back-up

9. Refers to bedroom as "The Pokey"

8. Secret desire to see you in a Kevlar nightie

7. Calls farting his "silent alarm"

6. The obvious nightstick reference.

5. You never hear him say, " OH, Man.... not donuts again !!"

4. Refers to his winkie as "the ol' breathalyzer!"

3. Stops you in the middle of sex to ask you if you knew how fast you were going.

2. Handcuffs don't turn him on anymore.

1. YES, that IS a gun in his pocket !!!!!

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Police Dept. Voice Mail

Hello, you have reached the ____________ Police Department Voice Mail.

Pay close attention as we have to update the choices often as new and unusual circumstances arrive. Please select one of the following options:

- To whine about us not doing anything to solve a problem you created for yourself, press 1.

- To postulate whether someone has to die before we'll do something about a problem, press 2.

- To report an officer for bad manners when in reality the officer is trying to keep your neighborhood safe, press 3.

- If you would like us to raise your children, press 4.

- If you would like us to take control of your life due to your alcoholic or chemical dependency, press 5.

- If you would like us to instantly restore order to a situation that took years to deteriorate, press 6.

- To provide a list of police officers you personally know so we will not take enforcement action against you, press 7.

- To sue us, tell us you'll have our badge, that you pay our salary, or proclaim our career is over, press 8.

- To hear this menu again, wrap aluminum foil around your head and turn around three times.

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WHAT IS A COP'S WIFE?

WHAT IS A COP'S WIFE?

A cop's wife is a woman who is married to a man who is "married" to his job, his partner and his badge. A cop's wife can usually be found cooking breakfast at midnight, picking up his uniforms at the cleaners and spending nights alone.

A cop's wife must be a good listener, not questioning him. She must be understanding 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 cop's 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 are not born or raised to be a cop's 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 often hate.

A cop's 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 cop's wife watches the man she loves grow old before his time, watches him become cold and unfeeling, but she will remain his friend, wife and lover. She will always be these things to him, but she also knows that he will always be first, A Cop.

When a cop's 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 that 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 cop's wife means lots of trust, love and worry, but when he says "I love you", it makes it all worthwhile.

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Holding each other up

A couple of days ago, I commented on Married to the Law's post about police giving each other breaks when being pulled over, and an anonymous commenter laid into me pretty good, accusing me of saying that I'm better than other people because I'm a cop's wife (which was not what I said at all).

However, it got me and quite a few other LEO spouses to thinking. And here's the thing: We ARE different.

There are plenty of careers out there with specific dangers: electricians, window washers, construction, farming. But the difference for us (and military spouses—which many of you also are) is intent. Our husbands go to work with the knowledge that they will be antagonized, they will be endangered, they will be targeted, they will be engaged by people who mean them harm. Confronting intentional danger is at the very heart of what they do.

I'm a professional editor for a travel industry newspaper, but I used to be an editor at a regular paper. When one of our sergeants was shot and killed a few years ago, reporters who never paid attention to me suddenly became interested in how I thought and felt, and more importantly, how my husband (then a trainee) felt. It was the only time that I could recall the news media showing concern and not suspicion for our police department. (The sergeant's death followed closely on the heels of a highly publicized reversal of a life sentence of a man who had spent 20 years in prison, which he claimed was a wrongful conviction.)

We have all felt misunderstood. We are all misunderstood. The very few officers who make grievous errors and choose to use their authority inappropriately are a point of fixation for the media and the community, while our husbands serve every single day heroically, ethically, selflessly. And we make sacrifices so that they can.

We ARE different. Let's celebrate our courage, our selflessness, and our dedication. We deserve it.

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