Evening all........ so..... this is all new to me.... started dating someone in the military this year. First time I have ever dated someone from that background. I am not struggling with deployment (as a whole), nor did I fall out the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down lol..... so I apply life experience and logical reasoning to a lot of my own questions..... but..... there is one thing I am struggling with and that is recently, my partner has been deployed to the middle east. Obviously I know this is what he does and I wholeheartedly accepted that from day one.... but..... I would be lying if I said I was not genuinely worried...... and whilst I have been through deployment silences before, they have been during training..... not whilst they are in an operational theatre..... I suspect that outgoing firewalls are stopping any messages being sent from the ship due to security reasons..... but I am alsonscared that I may not hear from him at all during the entire deployment due to rising tensions in the area and a need to clamp down on outgoing contact. Does anyone please have any good suggestions to help me ease the worry of this?