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NEED ADVICE. First Deployment... Actually Nervous?
I really need any person's help who has been through deployments before. This is my first and I'm at the last stage - where the Sailor is coming home! It's a wonderful feeling, but I'm terribly ....NERVOUS! ANXIOUS!
I was so excited and happy until recently... now it's coming soon and I am getting nervous. I wake with some anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness. Don't get me wrong, I am still excited! But is this normal?
He is my boyfriend and the man who loves me for me. I am so in love with him. I am moving to a new state to his apartment when he comes home. It's a huge change for me; we haven't lived together before, either. However, I know he is the man for me and we have such a mutual love. We have only been together for just about a year -and a good portion of that was this deployment.
I'm also trying birth control at the moment and the hormones seems to be really messing with my emotions. I just want to know what other people have experienced at this last leg of deployment. I hate feeling anxious, overthinking, worrying, and NOT being super excited as I was a little while ago!
Please help! I really hate feeling this way when I know I love this man and I can't wait for him to be home. =(
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Join the following groups for wives, girlfriends and fiancees. Since I am a mom of a sailor, my advice won't be as good.
Just click on each of the links below. When the page opens up, click +JOIN to become a member and repeat your comment from above. I am sure you'll hook up with a few young ladies soon. Good luck.
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/girlfriendsfianceswivesofsailors
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