Jeff and I e-mailed each other a lot at the beginning of our relationship. I spent a while reading through them tonight. They're so sweet. He's amazing. There are e-mails from when he went home for thanksgiving 4 years ago and we were apart for a few days (maybe a week, at the most). Most of them end with "I miss you!". Those words have a whole new meaning now. It's different. Maybe that's why military wives hang out together. There's this understanding - not just people saying "oh that must be hard" or "yeah, my husband went away on a business trip once for a week" - but a true understanding.