She opened her phone to some of the most devastating news imaginable. Her boyfriend would be deploying to Afghanistan seven months before he was supposed to. It wasn't as though she was ready to hear this sort of news. He calls and says, "are you sitting down? You should if you aren't."
So she sits. She sits and she begins to panic. All the things that could have gone wrong in the past and what he could be thinking right now start to run through her head. "Did I do something wrong? Are we not going to be together anymore?" They're the hard questions that no one person ever wants to try and answer.
He begins to spill the beans. "We're leaving in April. We'll be gone a decent amount of time and I know that we can get through this. I just need your support. Can we do this?"
She doesn't exactly know how to reply. They'll have been together for 5 months which is a good starting point, but 10 months apart could tear apart everything at the seams. It's not so much a panic anymore as reality sets in. He's really going to be leaving soon. There is no more time to worry about it, just time to live each day to its fullest as a couple.
The next morning, she calls his mom. She explains the situation and tries to get the point across that she is going to need every ounce of support to make this relationship work. He promised that if they got through this deployment, that at the end of her school years, he'd propose. Marriage was a definite possibility for this girl.
The situation being spoken, it has sunk in. She realized he was everything to her. He was going to go and come home and their lives together would really begin..
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