While Indian soldiers guard the nation against forces adamant to bring it apart, their better-halves do an equally remarkable job of holding the fort back home. A specific example of this comes from a wife of an Army officer who shares her pride of being married to a jawan and the struggles that come with it. In tough situations, it was their love that helped them sail through life: "After marriage, I moved with him to Bhatinda, where I was working as a lawyer from home. Those two and a half years that we were together were so special, but being a professional I knew that I couldn’t move around every 2 years with him and some of the places he was posted the only job available to me was that of a teacher, and that’s not what I became a lawyer for. "Together, we took the decision that I would move to Bombay to pursue my career and he would continue his postings. It’s tough, it’s really tough but it puts so many other things in perspective. For one - our long letters have become long WhatsApp conversations!" And when the going got tougher, they got stronger: "We see each other maybe once in every 4 months, but those 15 days of seeing and being with him mean everything to me; to us — we have a 3 year old daughter. I feel like there are no words to speak of an army man’s passion towards his country." And they don't complain, for it is their country that keeps them together, after all: There are days where there’s no communication between us because he’s in an area where there’s no network and finally after days he’ll call us up to tell us he’s okay. It’s so difficult for us, and even though this is his profession, I don’t think there’s been a day where he’s complained - everyday he wakes up with a smile on his face because he’s serving his country."