B....I lost half of my time with both my daughters but it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I told myself early on it was like I traveled for work and was only home on the weekends, i thought about people in the military who were away from the their families for months, I thought about kids who had their parents die or maybe their parent wanted nothing to do with them and just walked away. It [censored] no lie, it will get better but know that it could be some much worse.
