Seeing your husband leave is never a pleasant experience but seeing him distance himself from you is even harder

You knew you were betting on a losing dog by marrying the ever infamous Simon Riley. Even after three kids, he always seemed to revert to his old familiar ways of brooding and silence.

But he was a reliable man in the months that he was at home. Always fuelled your car, fixed things around the house, tolerated all of the kids tantrums. A good husband indeed

This habit of his of fixing things always reached the peak when he was going to be deployed. So when you walked in to him renovating a perfectly good bathroom you connected the dots almost immediately

"Almost done 'ere, love"