Getting sick of military coming home to surprise returns planned in public.

[LiberalFighter]

They don't give a shit about their family. If they did, it would be more private. But they make a big deal about it by having it televised.

[dalton99a]

1. It's a fucking reality TV show

[onecent]

2. This is the way Trump can get votes....

[JoeOtterbein]

3. +1

And it's an evil way to intimidate an abused wife in public.

(tears)

[2naSalit]

4. She looked not only shocked

but not thrilled when they sat down, like maybe there's not a good thing going on with them right now. What if...?

[JudyM]

5. Yeah there was something going on there, kind of embarrassed for her.

[Grammy23]

7. Maybe she realized she had been used by that POS at the podium.

I’d have been pissed off to realize he had used me and my children for a poignant moment on live tv. Just cringe worthy, but he got what he wanted because it will be replayed over and over. Shameless ..... he truly is.

[Totally Tunsie]

8. She's probably hoping her boyfriend back at the house

is watching the SOTU so he sees hubby is back and he needs to vacate NOW!

nahhhh - He's watching hockey.

[2naSalit]

10. That's what I was thinking when I saw her face just before sitting down!

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Or that she was one month away from having the separation time in

To finally file for a divorce... and fatnixon screwed that up for her.

I agree something was wrong. I definitely got a vibe and it wasn't good.

[2naSalit]

14. That's pretty much what I thought.

[GoCubsGo]

6. I got sick of them a long time ago.

Especially when they weren't deployed to war zones. These spectacles are have become nothing but a big cliche.

[UTUSN]

9. OP reminds me of a professor telling the aftermath of the Civil War

when the veterans had been granted tons of benefits like LAND out in the West. And this went on for a decade or two, and then, the prof said, people started getting tired of it and letters to the editor and other outlets started voicing along the lines of, "The veterans have gotten ENOUGH!1"

[Generic Brad]

12. They appear to be the same guys who made outrageous prom invitations

It is a self entitled, dominating male statement.

I love my wife more than anything, but our most private, intimate moments are just that - private. Publicly demonstrative gestures of love come off as totally phony. They appear to be more manipulative than genuine.

[LiberalFighter]

13. Exactly!

And they take away from the ongoing event whether it is a classroom or practice session usually.