This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
A letter in this week's Woman magazine illustrates that the reunion of many couples separated by war is by no means an end to their problems:
I have been married nineteen years, and was happy most of the time, until the war started. I then had my first baby and was very happy indeed until my husband told me he had given me the child just to keep me tied up while he was away. Since that time he has always tried to humiliate me and enslave me. He is being demobilized soon and he insists that when he comes home I should give up my friends and relatives and spend all my time looking after my little daughter.
Agony aunt Evelyn Home also comments on the mental agonies of the unhappy wife: “It seems harder to bear loneliness now, that the war is over. The girls write to me, finding the separation as difficult as it ever was - and also finding a lack of the old sympathy.”
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