What is a Police Wife?

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

A police wife must be a good listener, not questioning him. She must be understanding when doesn't feel like taking her to the movies or has an exam to study for.

A police wife must live with shift work, lonely holidays, 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 police 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 police 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 police 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 police officer.

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

(Author Unknown)