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About Wendy Carbone

• Background - I am a first generation American, the youngest of three children born to Joaquim Seco and Maria (Cordeiro) Seco.  My father worked as a shepherd from the age of 8 until he was old enough to serve his time in the Portuguese Army.  Years later, he moved from the mainland of Portugal to the Azores Islands, where he met my mother.  They lived there for several years before they and my two older sisters came to the United States in 1965 and settled in New England, which is where I was born and grew up.

• Marrying into the Military - I met my soul mate, about 17 years ago at a coffee shop in our hometown of Newington, Connecticut.  At the time I was a senior in high school and Danny was working the family business.  In 1993 Danny joined the Army and we were married just a few months later making me a Real Army Wife!  Since then, we have lived the "typical" (if you can call it that) Army life.   Like most military families, we have endured, unaccompanied tours, deployments, extensions, overseas duty assignments, lots and lots of TDY (temporary duty), separations due to schools, and more.  Despite the challenges of this lifestyle, we have found that there are many benefits as well.  We have been able to travel to parts of the world we otherwise would not have. (Granted Danny could have done without a few of them, but still great experiences for us both.)  We have also added four amazing children into our family who get to experience the ups and downs of  military life.  We have made some terrific friends along the way and we enjoy the sense of pride and patriotism that comes with this lifestyle.  We still have several years to go before Danny retires and we all transition into the "civilian world", so for now we just try to make the most of each day of this "Army life".

• About RealArmyWives.com
  This website was created after hearing much complaint about how military wives are portrayed on Lifetime's "Army Wives" television show.  As much as I absolutely enjoy the show, and take it for what it is...entertainment, not a documentary....I felt that we needed a place to have our voices heard and give insight into the lives of Real Army Wives.  This website is an ongoing project for me and I hope it will serve to encourage, inform, and entertain all our site visitors.

Soulmates

a.k.a.Twin Flames

1993 -  Basic Training, Fort Jackson, South Carolina

2003 -  A Night out at Fort Rucker, Alabama

Soulmates
Two people who are destined to be together.  Thomas Moore describes a soul mate as "someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.

2008 - Our Family