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One piece of advice for a Rev's husband I've read somewhere is to join some sort of club - so you can build up your own circle of friends locally.
And I can see some of the sense in doing that - so that as well as friends at work (hopefully!) - you've got friends near where you live.
But what the advice doesn't seem to take account of is the temporary nature of a posting as a curate.
As you may remember - we moved to a new market town for the curate posting my wife got. But my wife is only going to be a curate for 3 or so years. After that - assuming her training incumbent and the bishop give her the all clear - she'll be free to apply for her 1st substantive post somewhere in our current - or any other - diocese.
So ever since we moved I've known that we're only going to be here for 36 months or so. Now of course that hasn't stopped us making some new friends - but the friendships are mostly with people in the church.
For me it didn't seem worthwhile getting involved in some local club - only to move on again after a short while. I do sometimes wonder what Rev husbands in similar positions do. In this diocese the Rev's Partners organisation doesn't much help in making contact with other Rev husbands. Its still very much a Rev's wife dominated undertaking.
Anybody care to share their approach to the temporary nature of the curate posting - from a Rev's husband perspective?
