Sad!...Bootcamp..Need Advice!

My Boyfriend just left for the Navy...I am very sad..I really dont no how to handle it!..I just keep crying!....I am very Happy for Him...I guese I am just being selfish....But I was with Him EVERYDAY!...We did everything togther... Its like everything I look at or listen to it reminds Me of him!...Does anybody no what I can do...or how to handle it?

[Kym]

Write letters and stay busy. This is only the beginning of many long seperations. I know you don't want to hear that but it is the truth. Focus on you and what keeps you happy. Boot camp is just a short seperation

Find a hobby if you don't have a job get one
when my dh joined I was still in HS but we had been together for over 4 years then
Maybe make a scrapbook for his graduation.
Write him often!
Try to stay busy and don't "wait" on the call
When did he leave? literally today?
I was good till the night he left then I broke down but I stayed busy and time flew by

We were already married with 2 kids, so our situation was a little different.
I wrote my husband every day. Granted, it took about 2 weeks before I got his address, but I sent him a huge package with letters starting form day one. I went to the gym everyday I could after our daughter turned 6 wks old and that passed the time. I went to the IL's house so that my older son could play with his cousins and I could get a break from the baby.

Keeping yourself busy really is the key. If you create a goal for yourself while he is gone, that may keep you preoccupied also. I had my weeks planned so that the days flew by. It just made it that much easier. Good Luck.

[Trescha]

My df just graduated bootcamp dec. 22....so i know how you are feeling. I wrote him a letter every single day...and worked and went to college. I stayed so busy but it was the best thing i could have done. At night is when it was bad...that was always mine time to just cry and let it all out becaus i also had a journal i worte in for myself. But other then that with time things will get better. I wish yall the best ever. When you see him at graduation you are going to die! it is the best feeling in the world!!! we just cried and cried! ahhh best moment ever!!!

i had a journal that i wrote in as if i were writing to dh. keep busy. force yourself to go out with friends and make the best of it . kyms right this is only the beginning so don't mope even though it's easier.

[Nicole1788]

Keep yourself busy. my b/f just graduated from bootcamp in oct. it drove me insane but i didnt keep myself busy i never had anything to do. just write him letters and keep yourself occupied. greatest feeling in the world to see him again and be with him, it'll be time for him to graduate b4 you know it!! hang in there!

[ash]

i just wrote a letter a day and sent him them EVERYDAY i didnt miss ONE, not the whole time, I knew his address 6 days in and i sent him the first 6 letters all at once... they need letters just as much as you need to write them.. stay busy!

[duckyprincess]

totally agree with the ladies... the beginning will be hard but that's just part of the military life. Stay busy and write letters, they will keep you busy and cheer both of you. THings will get better as time goes by. Its not easy but you will get through it. ((HUGS))

Find something to do with your time. Write him letters or write in a journal. I find that before i go to bed is always the hardest time for me but if you feel busy time will fly.