So much waiting...

Day 2370: Sometimes I feel like, as a navy wife, I spend the majority of my time waiting. Waiting for orders, waiting for Darling Dear to call, waiting for Darling Dear to return home, waiting to buy that oh so perfect house you have your eye on, waiting to celebrate special events, waiting to get stinkin knocked-up already, waiting for my life with him to start! Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting... Ugg...

The waiting sucks, there is no denying it. Sometimes people will try and tell you to look at the silver lining, but sometimes, I just don't see it. Now I'm not saying it's not there, I'm just saying that sometimes you have to be able to find the silver lining yourself. No matter how many people tell me, "Oh, he will be home in two month! That's not so bad!" or "You can try and have a baby when he gets home!" it really doesn't make me feel any better. And honestly, if you haven't had to wait months and months at a time without seeing your significant other, don't tell me, "Two more months isn't that bad!" and can I get a OH NO YOU DIDN'T to the people who say, "Is he really coming home so soon? This deployment has just flown by!" If you are not immediately affected, you shouldn't comment on the speed of the last agonizing however-many-longers. And no, your neighbors' cousin's wife's brother being deployed, doesn't count.

Now don't get me wrong, I know people are just wanting to help. And I honestly think, that they think, they are. Usually, I just suck it up. Grin and bear it, because I know that the waiting is always hard. I know that sometimes, words can't help.

But sometimes they do. Sometimes all we need is someone to listen to the words we have instead, someone to cry to. Because waiting is hard, and yes, I know I chose this life. But just because I chose it, doesn't make it automatically easy.