My Decision To Stay On Active Duty

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In my life I have had to make many decision that I was not happy with making but the one that comes to mind at this point was when I had to make a decision on staying on active duty in the military or get off of active duty and go into the reserves. Now the reason I had to make this decision was because I had just recently got married and I did not want my wife to have to be packing up the house alone and moving everything to a new place without me. Furthermore, there was the fact that she would be moving to a place where she knew nothing about but she left the decision up to me because she said she would be happy no matter what I decided.
Therefore, I feel that this situation was an approach-avoidance conflict because I would have still been

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