Bf, you are a special case in the sense that you have no choice. You are facing the law of the land and your family must hurt doubly because of it. Once we get over this bump we will be TV's as long as the good Lord let's us live. In your case absence makes the heart grow fonder to the TV'ers you leave behind every 6 month's, and that is a good thing. Imagine if you had to wait one year. I guess things could always, always be worse.