When our men and women leave out to sea or out of the country for a deployment is can be really rough. We as the significant others go through many series of emotions. Through me and my husband's time apart I will be going through each stage on the "Stages of Deployment" charts and telling how I am dealing with it and what I have been experiencing.  This is Stage 1 of the emotional cycle of deployment and it is the ANTICIPATION. Hope you can relate to me on some of these!