She called...

She called, she wanted to tell me he was on his way home. She also said that people probably don't believe that she can make it through the rest of his deployment but that they are wrong. She said that she's not going to make the worst mistake of her life twice - once was bad enough.

She tried to express to me how it felt when she would think about him when they were "separated". She said that every time she thought about him she would feel something hot in her chest - like her heart was on fire. Then get a lump in her throat and her eyes would fill with tears. Things were worse - not better.

I told her that she was very brave to be able to swallow her pride and face all of us on Saturday. I said it took lots of guts. She said it felt so weird...