4 weeks, and that was recently, and it wasn't difficult when I returned, but I was going through some very difficult things. Clearly floored her when I unloaded what had happened earlier that very day.
I know when I joined the Army the forced break in my marriage actually seemed to help our relationship.
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“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” Gandhi
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