chat_history: ["My wife has been out of the country for school for a month and a half.  She gets back in a couple weeks, and it's getting tougher to wait."]
sys_response: Do you talk with her on the phone?
situation: My wife has been out of the country for school for a month and a half.  She gets back in a couple weeks, but it's starting to get tough being alone with just the dogs.