It's very sad how unappreciative young Singapore girls are nowadays, guess it'd have to wait until their own sons being sent to NS. In my time, my GF just 18-y.o. like me, cried at the send-off and promised to wait for me every weekend bookout until POP, until ROD. Her only gripe was that I chose to sign on for 5 years but she accepted that was a decision for myself to make. She'd wait anyway, just a few years more. My only regret was the 5-year wait didn't didn't work out as planned. She went to UK after NUS and I went to US after ROD...and of course like the course river tributaries, drifted apart flowed into different seas.