- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
The center of his life was neither the army nor his presidency. It was the thing he kept private, his intense love affair with his wife.
Nothing caused him greater unhappiness than being away from his fiance and his wife.
Nothing gave him happiness as much as being with his wife and his children. And despite some tough times economically, they stayed together.
The woman waited for him once when he went to Mexico and once when he was assigned to California.
Unlike the fictional Natasha Rostov in Tolstoy's War and Peace Julia waited for her fiance and married her prince.
They had four children. All of whom lived to adulthood. Julia herself lived to old age. And then, their daughter married young and had more children. So the daughter perceived marriage and family as a source of bliss, though her own marriage did not end successfully.
Julia Grant nee Dent, not only demonstrated her father was wrong about her capacity to be an army wife, she became the best of army wives. Julia was greeted wherever she went, and the army wives tended to gather around her. (Of course her husband controlled promotions, which didn't hurt her popularity at all.)
Julia Dent had one huge advantage. She wasn't the prettiest girl, and she wasn't the prettiest girl in her family. She had to be the best person, and she seems to have been successful at that.
Nothing caused him greater unhappiness than being away from his fiance and his wife.
Nothing gave him happiness as much as being with his wife and his children. And despite some tough times economically, they stayed together.
The woman waited for him once when he went to Mexico and once when he was assigned to California.
Unlike the fictional Natasha Rostov in Tolstoy's War and Peace Julia waited for her fiance and married her prince.
They had four children. All of whom lived to adulthood. Julia herself lived to old age. And then, their daughter married young and had more children. So the daughter perceived marriage and family as a source of bliss, though her own marriage did not end successfully.
Julia Grant nee Dent, not only demonstrated her father was wrong about her capacity to be an army wife, she became the best of army wives. Julia was greeted wherever she went, and the army wives tended to gather around her. (Of course her husband controlled promotions, which didn't hurt her popularity at all.)
Julia Dent had one huge advantage. She wasn't the prettiest girl, and she wasn't the prettiest girl in her family. She had to be the best person, and she seems to have been successful at that.
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