Originally Posted by
Mr C Hinecap
. All other mixed gender teams in the Forces cope with such 'desires' and they get along.
Actually they often get along too well.
I know from experience that the pressures when people are thrown together in close proximity for months at a time can create bonds and break up marriages.
You mentioned "your best mate" such friendship will not usually cause the break up of a marriage back home. If that best mate is of the opposite sex, and succeed in keeping the relationship platonic, will the spouses left at home see it that way?