For Prison Wives prison visits are our WOOSAH! Going days, months, and years for some without seeing our loved one is enough to drive both of us insane if you let it. Please don’t let it! And to think, that a lot of prisons are turning to video visits is unbelievable! The only little bit of normalcy we have left is being threatened. To go without human contact physically is inhumane and is no way rehabilitative. But anyway, while we still have our visits, these are just some of the reasons prison visits mean so much to us! If you’re a PW add what the visits mean to you in the comments.
- We get to see our loved one walk through the doors with the biggest kool-aid smile ever!
2. We get to talk about all those things we’ve been waiting to say (good, bad, and/or ugly) and can’t say because of recorded calls. Some things are just better said in person.
3. We get to have unlimited conversations that aren’t cut short because of the rude woman that jumps in and then has the nerve to disconnect the call right when the conversation is getting good!
4. We get to be in the arms of the person we love and experience the long-awaited best 5 minutes (ok, I think five minutes may be pushing it) before and at the end of visit.
5. We get to take care of our Baes by preparing the best vending machine entree fresh out the microwave, served on paper napkins topped off with nice vending cold drink! If we get lucky, we may be able to feed it to him.
6. We get to breathe the same air, be in the same space,and just simply enjoy each other’s presence.
7. We even appreciate the little moments of silence together if there is a moment.
8. We get to have the burden of “holding it all down” lifted for that moment
9. We get to listen to each other’s innermost thoughts and feelings that lies beneath the exterior that the world sees.
10. We get to be a normal, loving couple…