When Your Military Husband Leaves Home
What happens when a husband or wife leaves for war, many who don’t live that type of life are not really able to relate to the in’s and out’s of what it’s really like, the emotional ups and downs, living for that phone call above anything or anyone else.
The way it feels, if you’ve missed that phone call not knowing when the next one might come again, sometimes feeling what if something happens in between the time of that missed call, and that call being the last call.
There is an unconditional life in the military. which most who are not connected with the military can not relate to, even family as close as a mom, or dad they to sometimes do not understand the importance of it, at least in the first time of a deployment.
The everyday life of a wife with or with out children soon turns lonely, the passing of stores, or special places that use to be done together now give instant reminders of ” when you were together”, but now alone it sends an instant sadness of memories and missing him. When driving a special song might come on the radio sending tears down your cheeks.
As the weeks go by eventually you adapt to being all alone, reminders still remain but one way or another we all learn to push them aside, and not dwell on it for to long. Day times always seems the easiest to get by, but at night when you go to bed is when it seems to hit the hardest. The bed is cold and lonely, his smell still lingers and gets faint more and more as the months pass by. Saved shirts he wore before he left helps keep his scent around and get you through your day and night just one more time. Only to wake up and do it all over again.
Each day passing is one more day closer to his being home again, you’ve learned to not count the days and just ignore them knowing that not paying attention to how many are left will help it go by even faster.
The day has finally come that he has returned, what most don’t know is what goes on AFTER his return the physcological issues that arrise or don’t arrise, the emotional bond that needs to be built back up all over again…………………………
To Be Continued.
