Agree with the other posters . Focus on how this posting will benefit the CF , not on how it will make your wife pleased . Focus on both shortlong term benefits training , experience , and then mention how you will be able to disemminate these factors when you return to Canada . Perhaps mention your current qualities leadership , deportment , fitness , anything that will present Canada in a positive light to our foreign friends . Where the wife factors in , is she might give you an advantage if she has provided you with some culturallyspecific information about the country you are going to . My wife ' s culture has includes small details which would not be obvious to an average Canadian , but knowing these things allows me to be considered more of an insider , rather than another ignorant foreigner . Don ' t mention the mother . Hopefully you are going somewhere more interesting than I did Whidbey Island .