1. You’re aware that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Oh, the hapless platitude of well-meaning friends and family. I know many people will read this and barf in their mouth a little.
But, you know, cliches hold a certain amount of truth, however well-recited they become. I have always maintained that, in the very least, knowing that my husband and I had limited amounts of time together- and that gave us so much gratitude for the time we DID have.
That’s not to say we spent our vacations making grand gestures to one another and going on twee, Instagram-able adventures.
Quite often, we’d carry on doing the most mundane, everyday activities — but every grocery haul, every Netflix binge, every date night was loaded with a special significance.
We reveled in “normal.”
So perhaps I should alter the phrase a little: Absence makes the heart more grateful.
Either way, doing the LDR thing gives you a new appreciation that any time spent together is time well spent, which I’ve now come to realize is the very essence of a military marriage.
