Yesterday I had a chance to talk with Linda, a police officers wife, and a member of the board of directors of The National Police Wives Association. Linda and I had an excellent discussion about what it’s like to be married to a cop and what it means to be in a relationship with someone in a law enforcement career. As a police wife, Linda told me that she has to be part of an entire law enforcement agency’s family and all that comes with it. She told me about creating an support network with other police wives and how she deals with stress. We talked about raising kids in a police family and about how cops deal with line of duty deaths.
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About Editor
John Marx was a Police Officer for twenty-three years and served as a Hostage Negotiator for nineteen of those years. He worked as a patrol officer, media liaison officer, crime prevention officer and burglary detective. Also during his career he served as administrator of his city's Community Oriented Governance initiative through the police department's Community Policing project. Today John combines his skills to consult with businesses about improving both their security and their customer service programs. John retired from law enforcement in 2002. When one of his friends, also a former police officer, committed suicide at age 38, John was devastated and began researching the problems that stress creates for police officers. He decided he needed to do something to help change those problems and he wanted to give something back to the profession that gave him so much. He started a project that has evolved into CopsAlive.com. Put simply, the mission of CopsAlive is to save the lives of those who save lives! CopsAlive.com gathers information, strategies and tools to help law enforcement professionals plan for happy, healthy and successful careers, relationships and lives.
Yesterday I had a chance to talk with Linda, a police officers wife, and a member of the board of directors of The National Police Wives Association. Linda and I had an excellent discussion about what it’s like to be married to a cop and what it means to be in a relationship with someone in a law enforcement career. As a police wife, Linda told me that she has to be part of an entire law enforcement agency’s family and all that comes with it. She told me about creating an support network with other police wives and how she deals with stress. We talked about raising kids in a police family and about how cops deal with line of duty deaths.
To me being married to a police officer is very difficult. Hoping to find some help from this npwa.