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Maybe I'm Crazy

My husband is on the IKE and has been since Jan. We are currently separated and have been since 2005. I was alright with the separation for a few years even moving on myself but I never let him know how I truly felt, I was to prideful to let my guard down and tell him I love you I don't want you to go. I can now say I have found Jesus and He has brought the love for Kendall that I thought I buried away back to the surface and it truly hurts. He is on this deployment and like I said in the title maybe I'm crazy but I love and miss him so much! I hate that this separation even exists in our lives. I wish he was here with me! What I would give to hear him say I love you Vanessa again. I would never take him for granted again like I used to. He is truly a good man and he needs a good woman to support him and stay by his side. He has such a good heart and he keeps getting hurt unnecessarily by women. I know I was the first to hurt him and I am so deeply sorry for it all. I keep thinking I'm nuts for feeling this way, for hoping that God will bring him back to me, people tell me to move on or just concentrate on our girls but it's hard to do that because he is my other half, I miss my friend, I miss his smile, his crazy antics and how he used to look at me and as much as I hate to admit it, it has always hurts not to have him near me. I wish we could go back and erase all the craziness and start over again. There were times that I would secretly wish I was one of the women he was dating after our separation just so I could be with him again. Crazy huh. I think I need to get my head examined lol. I have loved him since we were 18 though I had a very strange way of showing it. I can honestly say that I love him more now than I did back then. I don't want anything from him because honestly to me he has given enough. I just want to shower him with all the love that is in my heart for him. I saw the video for Monica's new song "Everything to me" and I keep crying because the man in the video reminds me of my Ken Ken. He is tall, dark, muscular, bald and beautiful just like Kenny and I know I'm crazy because I truly do love him. I don't know if anyone even cares to read this but I needed an outlet for this pain.

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Permalink Reply by Gina Navy Wife on March 31, 2010 at 11:01am

Hey!

I read it Vanessa! haha.

I'm just a little confused... so you guys were together... then seperated and then he was in the navy or deployed?

Anways, it seems to me like you really do love him and always have. I think it's worth a try if you feel so strongly about him to tell him that. Maybe he feels the same way, maybe not. But you owe it to yourself to see. Just find out how he feels, what he thinks.

If you don't let him know how you feel, you will never have peace of mind. Who knows what will happen... just communicate with him and see where it takes you.

and you're not crazy, promise.

God does things we can't understand!

Permalink Reply by Vanperk319 on April 2, 2010 at 1:55am

Thanks for the encouraging words. I have told him how I feel but he's not very receptive right now. I prayed and I'm leaving it in God's hands now. I have tried everything I know how to do to make him see that I am no longer the same person he was with before. God has changed and is continuing to change me. He is currently on deployment on the Ike. I'm having to trust God completely with this one. We separated in 2005 He joined the Navy in 2001.

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