history: My wife has been out of the country for a couple months for school.  Dropping her off at the airport was really tough. My wife has been out of the country for school for a while.  Dropping her off at the airport was really hard.
current: Do you guys get to talk a lot?
next: Yeah, we talk by text all the time and call every day.  It's still hard though, we haven't been apart longer than a couple days since we met.