When you truly love someone, it isn't that hard. My husband is a military veteran. I spent many months - accumulated to years - waiting for his return, only to see him for a few weeks and have him leave again. If you are not truly committed to the person leaving, then waiting is exceptionally hard. However, when you truly love them, you *want* to wait patiently and enjoy every moment you have together. Love isn't selfish. So, you think only of their happiness while they are gone and how you can make them happy when they return. When they feel the same for you, the effect is two people living and breathing solely for the purpose of making each other happy. But, if either's love is selfish and self-serving, only the failures to make the selfish one happy are seen. If one can say, "You're not doing enough to make me happy.", that person's love is selfish. The only goal of true love is making your lover happy, your own happiness stems from theirs. Sadly, in today's world, that is a very hard thing to find because everyone thinks that the goal of being in love is to be made happy by your lover rather than making your lover happy. When two people who love selflessly are together as a couple, that is a love that will last the ages. I have been married for 23 years, with no end in sight, and this is how my husband and I love each other. Our love can survive and overcome anything, even being apart for years.
I actually love your story. It gives me hope that love really can exist. Also I hope you and your husband live happily ever after :))
Cute. But trying to just stay in the fantasy. I don’t think many would actually wait. I don’t think I could, his whole 3 years damn.