chat_history: ["My wife is going away on a business trip soon.... she'll be gone for a couple of weeks.", "That'll be tough.  Do you have anything you can do to keep busy?", "Well, I might do some work on the house. But it's going to be awfully quiet around here."]
sys_response: I bet.  It's sometimes surprising how much your life revolves around the other person being in the house.
situation: My wife is out of the country on a business trip. Now it's way too quiet around here, it's driving me crazy.