tears of disappointment

I found out today that Al will be away from me for eight or nine days in July for training on a new printing press. He has to go somewhere on the east coast to learn how to fix the thing. This news is bitterly disappointing to me since we will be newlyweds and we'll already be spending months three through eleven (August through April) of our first year of marriage apart. It puts a damper on my anticipation about spending the summer with him. Why couldn't his company take him away after I leave to start the new school year?