Hey Lissie, haven't seen you in a while. Well, I've been looking for your thread but haven't' seen it. Hope you're doing alright.
So, I took Dom's advice from many months back. W has been telling me that she can't handle a 2 year separation (job's moving me to TX and then to the desert for a year so it would be 2 years before we could live together again). I really wanted the trip to the desert (long story but it would be beneficial in a lot of ways) but decided this past weekend that I would see if it was possible to get out of it. Turns out, since I was a volunteer for this thing (didn't mention that did I) it wasn't hard to get my name out of it at all. So, I'm still going to TX but I'm not going anywhere else afterwards which should alleviate some of the anxiety on W's part about a long separation.
I found this out on Wednesday but haven't told W yet. Don't know how to really. I think she'll be a little mad at me for dropping it, she knows how much I wanted to and what a good opportunity it was. But, it wasn't her decision to make, it was mine and I decided that the M is more important than the job. Besides, if she really does want to pursue a D, I can pick up a new deployment in pretty short order. I was thinking about telling her sometime during the Retrouvaille program. I understand that they give you lots of time to talk so I was thinking somewhere in there. I just got to get the timing and tone right, I don't want to sour the weekend by doing it poorly.
