Naive?

I despise people who seem to think that we have it easy and our men have it hard, just a little correction for those of you who criticise us and believe this comment to be true we don't have it easy, we have it just as hard as our men do! We fight our first battle the moment we say "see you soon" and kiss them that last kiss before they leave. I question myself and others in the same lifestyle, would these people be able to walk a mile in our shoes before passing judgement? The answer? What would you say? No. Truth be told, these are the people who couldn't find the strength that we have to carry on, these are the people who would break at the first hurdle. Before you criticise; take a step back, have a look at what we go through on a daily basis throughout deployment. Live a day in our life and then begin to criticise us. My opinion? Correct me if I am wrong but, I believe you wouldn't have the balls to.
How could someone sit there throughout a tour on a daily basis and wait for phone call after phone call from someone who is supposed to be out fighting a war and say that they have the strength to get through it? My personal opinion, that doesn't take strength. You have 6 maybe more phone calls a day and you say you can't cope. What? Are you serious? I mean, the rest of us, we have 1 phone call a week that's if we are lucky but do we say we can't cope? No. You say this, but you just seem so naive. Do you even know what it feels like to go days, weeks or even months on end between each bit of contact?
I often wonder what it would be like to be able to receive a phone call from my love each day, several times a day for that matter but I just cannot seem to imagine it. They are in the middle of a war, both us and them are lucky that they even have phones or the internet out there. I think about what you'd be like if they didn't and I can honestly say, you would have broken at the first hurdle. What would you do if your only point of contact was writing a letter by pen and paper and waiting weeks on end for a reply. It would drive you mad, so please, shut up moaning that he's not called today, man up and get on with it. We are extremely lucky that we don't have to go through that way of contact.