"I just want to wake up next to you sometimes.... holding you close, whispering how much I love you... but I can't when you take off.  At least wake me if you want to go... then I can kiss you and go back to sleep if I feel like it."  She had wrapped herself around him as he huged her, and had spoken in a quiet voice so that no one else was privy to the speech.  She loved him desperately, but didn't feel like advertising their love life to the rest.