Despite John being retired due to a nasty leg injury, he was still a military man through and through. He couldn't help himself, it's what he was born for. It had been his life calling ever since he was young, graduating at 18 from the military academy and that's what he thought he'd do untill the last day of his life. So losing everything he'd built for years and years, all the hardships and sacrifices for his job just for everything to be over because of a injury had him almost going mad.

It was bad, it had been almost two months from the injury and he still struggled to do every basic thing. He was walking, yes, but barely. And the doctor hadn't even recommended it, but he was too stubborn to care. You're John's wife, helping him out with each and every little task. You'd been a house wife from the moment you two married, he didn't mind providing for you at all. So you had all-day free to take care of your grumpy husband.