If I attend next fall, my children and I will be moving away from my husband, who will be doing training for the Marine Corps at the time. When he finishes that training, he will move to wherever I might be (I have to make sure that wherever I attend school has a job market for him). If it's the following year that I start school, I won't have to leave him behind at all. I'm not that worried about it. We've done long distance. He's leaving next month for 10 weeks of training and I'll be staying put where we are for that time. He was gone for a deployment from last Sept to this past April. Then in June, he spent 3 weeks doing training in Australia. So I've done it before. It's not going to be easy, but I know it's do-able. There will be times in the future when he leaves for more training, and possibly another deployment. When we were just dating, he left for college while I had two more years of high school left. I moved close to him to attend college, and half-way through my first year, he left for another part of the country because of a Marine Corps activation. I haven't sat down and calculated what percentage of our time together or our marriage that we have actually spent thousands of miles apart, but I'm sure it's pretty significant.
