About three weeks ago was mine and Evan's one month wedding anniversary. Not long after, he got his orders to report to his first duty station to the USS Essex in Sasebo, Japan.
Tomorrow is his 23rd birthday. And we are both glad that we will be together for that. But what we realized as we talked about his orders to stay in Sasebo for 27 months is that we've been together since November 2008. And if you do that math, that's 27 months.
When he is done with his time in Sasebo, we would have spent half of our relationship (somewhat) geographically close (with the exception of holidays and summers) and half in two different countries.
This does not make either of us happy. In fact, it's really sad. Evan leaves sometime next week and then his ship goes on patrol not long after he arrives. Don't worry, he'll have fun playing in The Outback.
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