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awww! Sorry to hear about this so close to the holidays! Remember that we bees are here for you!
@littlecat: Thank goodness he will be back Friday night, but man oh man will I miss him. It is no fun away from him. I hope I will be able to sleep at night.
Don't SCARE me like that, lady! It sucks that he'll be gone for a month, but there's always Skype and whatnot (and you have us, too). Why not take up knitting or cross-stitch or something to keep busy?
Awww hun.... I will be doing the same thing after I get married. FI will be leaving for Navy basic a few months after our wedding, so I can't totally relate as a past experience, but I know it will happen someday, so I can in a way. :)
Can you go to visit him on weekends and stuff? I am planning on writing to FI every day and taking a picture every day that he's gone of something that I did that day and give it to him on a CD when he gets home since I can't visit during basic. I can visit during his school afterwards, and I am planning on bringing care packages, new lingerie (hehe), and new clothes and stuff like that for him.
When I am home, I am planning on doing a lot of organizing, painting, working out, and entertaining to keep me busy. My sister is going through her hubby being deployed and she says the time goes quickly if you keep busy and do things you have always wanted to do, like take a spin class or a cake decorating class.
My SO is gone often for work. He works 21 days, and then has 6 off. But of those 21 days, he's usually only home for a night or two. It really does suck, but I've become used to it. The only thing I can't get used to is nighttime. I have the worst sleep when he's not here.
@Mrs Grape: sorry lol!! I tried knitting once and failed miserably. I think I will be on the home decor tip and try to organize and make our house a home while he's gone. My poor Cricut will be smoking when he gets back lol!!!
@piglet_625: I work every Saturday (relief postal carrier) so I wouldn't be able to see him, except on Saturday evenings. He is off on Fridays and Saturdays we think and will be able to come home. We find out more tomorrow.
eta I guess the best part of the day was we were featured on a nationally syndicated blog!! PM me if you'd like to see (I can't post it due to the Hive's self promo policies)....
My husband is in the Army and went out of state for training only 2 months after we got married and was gone for a month. Then, a month after that, he went to Afghanistan and has been gone 8 months. So I can relate to the absence! Sounds so simple, but keep yourself BUSY and it will go by fast :) Do you have any children or pets? I found it easy to devote a lot of my time to my dog and put lots of time into school and it helped keep me sane :) Good luck!!
@lmurphy89: I do have children, work, and in school. But it means nothing compared to the excitement of seeing him everyday. I suppose it will be more like when we met (via the 'net and not in person for 8 months). Even then I missed him if I didn't talk to him. Sigh.
Oh sweetie, that's so tough! My husband has been in CO off and on for the past 2 months. And it looks like he might be doing a rotation out there. It's a great opportunity for him but it so sucks!
Seriously, you should never post something with that title again! OMFG, my heart literally stopped for a second. Are you trying to kill me so close to my wedding?!
3 hours isn't that far. Can't you drive to visit him every weekend or can't he come see you? My dad lived 13 hours away from my mom for the past year and a half and he still drove home practically every 2 weeks to see her.
@MissAsB: yeah it definitely sucks more than anything else. To top it off I am not doing fantastically at work and in the middle of the dreaded learning curve where I know what I am doing but am not doing it efficiently enough so it's frustrating as hell.
@Lindsay12.31.2010: LOL!!!! My bad... but of course you deserved it for saying you did a mockup and then not showing pix :P
LMAO!!!!
@crebre80: Are we twins? I am having problems at work too. I really want to leave but I haven't found anything else yet.
@amariem25: I work every saturday and we have kids, he will probably be coming home every weekend, but I was miserable when he worked nights and I worked days and we didn't see each other. This doesn't make it better.
Hey sweetie! Dang girl, you about gave me a heart attack w/that thread title though!
What I do? Read. When dh went on an extended business trip to India 2 years ago I think I read a million books.
Might I suggest some of the True Blood novels? You'd love em'! Takes place in Law-eez-e-anna! (how my family says it! lol!)
adding: My son is driving me nuts right now while I type. He just brought me a candy cane and I was licking it, and he told me he just let Wyatt lick it before me (our dog)....Cre, you can always come over here and pummell my crazy 12 yo son!!!
@ILikePink: Sorry lol!!!!
@MissAsB: I have been there about a month and it's with the government, the problem is we're on a time schedule that is strict as hell. We have to be within a certain time and deliver everything, etc.
I had sooo much mail from Christmas cards, etc that it made me want to cry.
@crebre80: Yeah the government is like that. There are times of the year when everything needs to be done yesterday but most of the time, nothing really happens at my job and no one really cares that I do nothing.
@bellenga: lol J you have wyatt breath!!!! I love giving everyone the scare tactic with the title.
@MissAsB: that's what my coworkers keep telling me. Now I beg to differ and honestly this job makes me hate Christmas with all of the boxes, etc.
you totally scared the poop out of me - no worries - time will fly! i did the whole separation thing back when i was an army sig other hated deployments - vowed never to do it again.
DH and I didn't even live together the first five months of our marriage, we lived halfway across the country from each other! but i know what you mean, seperation is tough. :(. try to go out with your girlfriends or work on a hobby, stay busy til he gets back. :)
my fiance goes away for work more than half the year. it sucks, but its for the best
and yes, prepare for boredom! lol :)
My hubby is away for work alot. so far five weeks is the most we've done where i haven't seen him. I tend to read alot, visit my family, try new things like recipes or crafting hobbies while he is away. it makes the time go by.
@crebre80: I'm with you! My husband leaves in one week for a three week trip to India (to visit his family). I couldn't go, so I'll be missing him like crazy! We've only been apart once before (4 week trip to India he took in 2008) and so I'm sad that he is leaving. I don't mind when he and I are apart a few days, but three weeks seems like forever. (And my rational mind knows that it isn't that long) I'll be cooking new recipes, watching chick-flicks and spending even more time on Wedding Bee. :) And just like you, I also plan on doing some things around the house (organizing), too. :)
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and going to Mobile for a month (definitely not what you were thinking, right?)
We knew that his other contract was ending soon after the wedding and he took the knowledge test for a new job in.... Mobile (3 hours a way). He will be leaving tomorrow, and I won't even be able to see him before I get off work. I am excited for the opportunity for our family but so sad that he will be gone for about a month. And after this one ends he could be going to California, Alaska, or Hawaii. I am so proud of him but so sad because he's my best friend and I will miss him to death.
I am going to be so incredibly bored and lonely. I guess I will keep myself busy by baking and trying to organize our house but has anyone else gone through a work related "separation"?