Buy the rumor and sell the fact

So..If you think rumors were bad in high school try being a military spouse. Not that all of them are all necessarily bad rumors but they get everyone in a roar of either excitement or disappointment. And very quickly. Someone is either texting or calling about shut downs, later dates, earlier dates, change of schedule. When the fact is none of us are aboard the ship and none of us hear what the CO has to say everyday. Not to mention it needs to be considered that there are well over 3000 plus people on my husbands ship. (I am talking Navy talk, but this applies to all military!) So with that many people it is bound to get mixed up, either one person higher up tells them something they heard and they aren't for sure of, so that person contacts family and tells them and family contacts everyone they know. Just to find out when you hear from your loved one, it wasn't true. This isn't calling any of these men or women liars or saying they are wrong. Just stating that there is one CO and all these other sailors. They are bound to hear five hundred different stories a day. Some work nights, some work days, and the mix up happens there. I use to get all upset when anybody told me of a change or something was going to happen, or get excited when in fact there was nothing to get excited over. So now I am living by what my husband tells me, when he calls and says "I'm home" I will believe they are here and when he tells me I have to be on the ship at _____ time I will take him then. There is just no need to me in getting worked up over rumors. Once again I know people don't mean them as "rumors" to hurt anyone or upset anyone. This is just simply how I am choosing to find out my information. I respect all my fellow spouses, all military and especially the spouses of the men and women aboard my husbands boat. I just don't want to be the one to upset anyone or get up any ones hopes and something that may or may not be true. What my husband tells me, I am 100% sure is what he heard or was told, but it may be completely different then what my best friends husband heard. Then we look like idiots when the complete opposite happens. Fact is it's military, there schedules are never for sure, and from the time one spouse emails his family, by the time the Next sailor gets on the computer its pretty likely that news has already changed....gotta love the life!!