Aint No Sunshine When He's Gone...

[Welshcookie 17]

gotta rush to work....but wanted to say hi to you...thinking of you....

[MichelleandCraig 1]

He's home chickie poo!! :) M. Seriously outta whack time wise! but home, and alls gooooooood!

Edited June 16, 2006 by MichelleandCraig

[aussiewench 9]

awwwww Lisa

We're with ya girl

I have only had one goodbye and that was nearly 16 months ago now but I still remember as if it was yesterday.

[Laura_and_IanM 0]

AWWWW Lisa!!! I am so sorry that you are going through this!!! Just remember that we are all here rooting for ya and to lend an ear so to speak lol. Love ya lots!!

Laura Mitchell

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

Aww, big hugs Lisa. Here is hoping this is the last goodbye you will have to go through, and that your journey is quick. These are always the most difficult times.

The last visit I made him help me clean the house, change the sheets etc before he left, told him I COULD not come home to anything that smelled like him or anything out of place that was his. Even went to the extreme of washing the bath towel he last used, all of this made it easier for me after having done the goodbye thing one to many times. We used to leave love notes hidden everywhere for the other to find, couldn't even do that this time just so difficult, would rather keep the good memories in my mind only. THere is a note on my freezer, that has been there since December of 2004, it says Mrs **** I love you my princess, wake me up before you go. I have looked at that everyday for a year and a half and smiled, now it is discolored and has a few dirty paw prints from the children on it, but it will remain there until he can leave me a new one!

Keep your chin up, it wont be long until you are together forever!

B

[rebeccajo 14]

Awwwww....I hope you feel a little better this morning, girl.

It's awful. How well I remember. Each visit, after passing through security, I could see him turn around and look for me but I could tell that he could not locate me. Thank God for my being too short, I guess, because had he blown me a kiss I would have crumpled. But he's very tall and I could always see him vanish into an elevator to head to the terminal side of the airport. My drives back from the airport were three hours long. I would drive with the radio off. I didn't want any company, not even music.

We never tidied the house before he left either. I would come home to rumpled bed sheets and everything. I would always use the last tea cup he had drank from until he came back the next time (I did wash it though- ha!). And he never took his bathrobe home - I would wear it to bed every night.

I would miss him dreadfully until I would hear from him on the other side. With each step back to the 'normalcy' of being apart, I would feel a tiny bit better. After a week or two, it was just the normal everyday ache of being apart......

*hugs*

Be good to yourself. And see you in chat.....

[Fandango 1,440]

Thanks guys, well waking up alone this morning just sucked completely! However, he's home and safe so I woke up to that news so it wasn't all bad.

Last night was pretty hard & I was totally self indulgent feeling wayyyy sorry for myself...I slept in his clothes, I played our wedding song ON REPEAT and cried, and i even drank a warm half-bottle of beer he left from like the night before last....yuck that was nasty!

At the end of the day, it's England, not war that he flew to, so I am going to not dwell on the neg & instead bask in all our wonderful blessings....after all it's the last separation we'll have so surely moving thru it is a good thing. We're that much closer!

Anyways, new day today. We're making the time count by doing productive things, and I just so happen to have appts all day, so I can't wallow today even if I wanted to, which kinda sucks but kinda not, hahahahha

ttyl guys. have a good day everyone.

Edited June 16, 2006 by LisaD

[incanada1234 0]

Ugh, I remember those days and how painful they were. You know what I'm talking about - those days right after he leaves and you just cannot possibly think of anything but him. And everywhere you look in the house you remember where he sat and where he laughed and kissed you and held you. And then you try to go outside and it's just as bad because you remember taking a walk down this street, and driving down that street.

The first time he came to the U.S. and I took him to the airport when he left (this was before 9/11), we held each other and sobbed at his gate. Everyone was trying not to stare at us but we were wrecks, we didn't even care. He was the last one to get on the plane and I literally held his arm until he got through the door to the ramp, all the while blinded by tears. I thought I was going to die.

So yes, I know exactly how you feel. But for me, I was always happy I even HAD someone to feel that way over. And each day got a little bit easier to get through the closer it came to being together for another visit.

I hope you guys will be together again soon.

[Fuzzness 2]

Lisa maybe you should take a visit up to the state above you to visit some of your awesome friends

seriously though, the wait is worth it when you'll finally be together for good

[TracyTN 237]

This is kind of a funny story. When Chas left from his visit here in April, I was totally bummed out and hating the quiet house (as you can well appreciate, Lisa). I had been home from the airport for about an hour when my phone rang. It was my friend Linda. The first words out of her mouth were, 'Can you drive me to the emergency room??'

Seems she had been trying to repair her screened porch and somehow managed to put a STAPLE through her hand. Owww!! So I drove like a bat out of he$$ to the ER. She was there about an hour and a half before they let her go. We then stopped at the pharmacy and even grabbed a bite to eat before I took her home again around 9:30 pm.

I gotta say, it REALLY helped me to have something else to concentrate on (other than missing Chas so terribly). Regardless, I don't think I can convince her to do a repeat performance next time. I can't imagine why...!

[jen&darcy 0]

So sorry Lisa....((((hugs))))

[tmma 467]

Regardless of how many times you have to do the "Airport good-bye"--it just gets no easier....

Still, you are right not to dwell on the negative!

So much to plan and do-plus-the million $$$$ lead could be walking through that door any minute-then it's party at Lisa's !!!!!!

Glad he has made it back OK.

Shele

Edited June 16, 2006 by tmma

[irishgirl73 0]

Airport good-byes are the absolute worst. After doing it 8 times in two years you would think it gets easier but it never does. My man was here for three months, and taking him to the airport was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I don't even remember the drive home-I was heartbroken

When I got home I realized that he had left me notes everywhere-I thought it was so romantic, but every word I read made me cry even harder The worst was the next morning-took a shower & realized that he had wrote "I miss you" on the mirror-how sweet is that? God I am getting emotional now just thinking about it.

Hugs Lisa..................we ALL know how you feel It won't be long before you are together forever

[Paul and Melanie 0]

Awww I know how you feel. I hated saying good bye. The first week after Paul left was awful

A hug for you >< actually, that was a Yahoo hug lol but still a hug. Hope you feel better.

Melanie

[Reba 2]

the first couple of days are the hardest, then it gets a little bit better. *hugs*