"When You're Gone" do other military wives believe in this song?

I did, for awhile. We aren't married but at least I had hoped to be. He's home on leave now, not staying with me which truly sucks since I am stranded here with five "houseguests" (friends who needed a place to stay and he was gone and the decision had to be made immediately or some would have gone to jail and others to a homeless shelter! One is a two-week old recovering from heart surgery! Another is a 20 month holy terror. Another, their mom, is a girl I raised. Another is her husband and the fifth is a fried of theirs! No jobs! No plans! I've been in their situtation, although I was working, and know you need a place, but this sleeping all day and watching mindless tv all night has got to stop! At any rate, my reservist is staying at his mother's house (I offered to pay for a hotel so we could stay together). He gave me onlly hints that he would be coming home. "I might be home sooner than you think". Like that was supposed to mean anything! I got on this site hoping someone could tell me what to do when the guy who phoned constantly from Iraq barely has the time to call now that we are in the same town? Was I just the fantasy? A disappointment? My best friend is no longer speaking to me! He was in "I told you so" mode the other day and then "confessed" he wants to marry me--but of course backpedaled when I said "yes!" We aren't kids! My reservist is 49, I am 57 and the best friend (who is in a wheelchair and has terrifically bad health due to weighing 415 pounds!) is 62. Should I have lied to "best friend" that reservist was home and stomping on my heart? Do they all come home negative and angry? My vet friends say to give the reservist space, which I am doing but leaves are of limited duration and I hate to waste this one! Also, what do you chosen ones do to go from Significant Other to Spouse? I was widowed 20 years ago and not sure I can take another day of it!

im not a military wife but i did feel that song was powerful

My husband went to Turkey when he was in the service and I felt very lonely. I wore his shirt to sleep in at night and I never slept in the bed while he was gone. The pillow case on his pillow was not washed until he came home. I would bring his pillow out to the couch where I was sleeping and lay on it and smell his fragrance. He was gone for a year and that was the longest year ever for me.