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Imagine how you might feel if your partner came home one night to tell you that they wanted to go to Iraq. Not because they had to but because they wanted to. How do you think you might feel? Upset? Concerned? Confused?

But regardless of her concerns, she remains glad that she allowed him to go: "I'm totally lost without him, but it's important to him and therefore I feel that I'm his wife and I should support him."

Despite the challenges they face from being apart, both Catherine and Philip feel that their faith helps them to keep going. Via phone calls from her living room in Leegomery to the war torn streets of Iraq, Catherine has learned that Christianity helps the soldiers out in Basra too: "There's a Christian cafe out where he is, and everybody goes there because they need to know that there is something else besides what they're doing. They need that strength."

Catherine prays for the safety of her husband every day but also avoids reading the papers and watching the news for fear that she'll learn something that isn't true and worry unnecessarily: "If I did that, I'd be a bag of nerves by the end of it, so I just live on a day to day basis."

Instead, Catherine is lucky enough to have telephone and letter contact with her husband and they chat to each other in code so she can learn what's going on out there.

But despite all the ups, downs, worries and concerns, Catherine remains confident that Philip will be alright: "He's got a lot of people protecting him...and as far as I'm concerned if anything happens to him it is God's will."