I found this in 'The Time Traveller's Wife', and I read it to my husband. He said that it sums up pretty accurately what he feels about our life together....and I think that many of you men out there (particularly the military members) might be able to identify with it...
'I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet, I am always going, and she cannot follow.'
(Audrey Niffenegger, 'The Time traveller's Wife')
'Nuff said, I think.....