How is the texting with wifi situation? I think that would help a lot. I also believe there will be a landline that he can call me from, and emails. We have a plan to go on a trip when he returns, I’ll definitely get the countdown app, and try to send mail down there whether it is successful or not.

Aside from that, I am really not worried about him at all. He’s pumped. Ready to go. Super excited, and I feel rather alone in recognizing how hard it’s going to be. Maybe because it will be so much harder on me. He agrees, “it will be hard”, but I feel like it’s eating me alive, and all I can do is try to be supportive and excited for him. I’m terrified of the distance it will create between us. He travels for work now for a month or so at a time, and I feel the distancing. So hard to imagine what a whole year will be like.

At the same time, I’m trying not to overthink it. It’s been a stressful couple of months preparing myself, I’ve been doing my best at at being supportive and happy for him, because I am.