Dear Juliet
My husband is a petty officer and medic on a patrol in the Royal Australian Navy. We have a beautiful baby girl. But I don't know how to cope. He is always away from home on patrols for weeks at a time and more recently has been away a lot helping with keeping the peace. He is missing so much of Chloe's life and I really don't know what to do. I feel so alone like I have no one to talk to. I am stuck in the house all day with a teething toddler and I hardly get any sleep.
I want him to take a shore posting meaning he will be home every night and Chloe will get to see her daddy and I will get to see my husband. Am I being unreasonable? I know he loves his work and wouldn't want him to change for anything. I know he loves his work and he is brilliant at his job. I just need him to be with me and understand the way I feel
Love sally
so I know sally isn't on HMAS Hammersley but I wanted to write a letter from her as I think she would be feeling like she didn't know what to do with swain being away at sea and her being stuck with the baby. this is only what I think they are feeling from reading between the lines of the scenes they are in and the talk sally and swain had on the dock after she ran away. I hope you enjoy and I shall be writing Juliet's responce in due course (as soon as I can find some good quotes on relationships that sound good )
duckmadgirl xx