[Doohickey]

One of the contributing factors to it breaking up, IMHO.

Mine too. The first one anyway. On the subject of lessons learned, I told my then girlfriend back in '90 that if she was still around after my sea tour was done that I'd marry her. She was, and I did. 15 years later and she still won't go away! :)

[Bottom_Gun]

yep, 14 yrs on this one so far :). Back in the day, I had an A-gang chief who used to say you weren't a real Submariner, until you've had a least one break up because of your career choice *L*.