Saying Goodbye at the airport

@laydee (12798)
Philippines
May 28, 2009 2:20pm CST
Do you have troubles saying goodbye to someone dear to you at the airport? I actually do, most especially if I know that it would take some time before the person would return. I'm most especially vulnerable if it's someone close to my heart. A parent, sibling or a boyfriend. I have had the chance to say goodbye just very recently. Didn't want him to go, but we both know that he needs to. I still long for his return, but at the same time I'm happy knowing he wants to be with me. I'm hopeful that someday we'd be together again. What about you? Do you have difficulty saying goodbye?
10 responses
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
29 May 09
hello laydee, yes saying goodbye is never easy for me. i experience crying so much in the airport and sometimes in pier...its the time when my bf then was assigned to other place, far from where i live. i can't explain how i feel that time coz many thoughts are coming over. maybe its fear that we we're not able to see each other again... but good thing is that we're married now! another time i remember that i cried a lot is when i go with my husband here where he was assigned, this time i cried because i'm gonna miss my parents and i'm not used to it living away from them. now ive been away for quite a long time but still i find it difficult to say goodbye to them everytime i go home and be back again here where i live... good day! :-)
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
30 May 09
Oh yeah, that's exactly how I feel. I am afraid that it's the last time we'd ever get to see each other, since I don't know when he's coming back. It's sad really, but that's reality. I'm just hoping he'd not forget me.
@ckyera (17331)
• Philippines
30 May 09
sure he will not forget you just always find a time to communicate with him...:-)
@Q_Savvy (131)
• India
29 May 09
Oh yes, definitely. I experience quite often and every time it's just as hard to say byebye. Whether it's the same person or someone different, but as long as they're close to you, the pain, the hurt is always there. Some people say that you get used to it, but this is something that you can't get used to, well, at least that's what I think. It's hard to learn and control your emotions at the spot, but I've learnt to do that to some extent, although my inner feelings are still the same as they were before, and sometimes even worse. Oh well, I guess that's just a part of life...
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• Philippines
29 May 09
Just like me, I'm definitely won't ever used to it.. The parting of two people especially if you love this person is really hard.
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
29 May 09
Yeah, regardless how hard we try, sadness still fills our hearts when it's time to say goodbye.
@MartyM (95)
• United States
29 May 09
Last Summer, my mom came to visit me. I was SOOOO excited. Ya see, I live on the East coast and my family lives on the West coast. She stayed for 2 weeks...it was a wonderful time we had!! When it was time to drive her back to the airport, I told myself I wasn't going to 'break-down'. Well.......of course I did. I'm VERY close to my family. It was very difficult to say 'goodbye'.
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• Philippines
29 May 09
I feel the same way when ever my bf is going to go home. He lives in a different country and he have been here twice already to spend some time with me. We always have long kissing scene in the airport when ever we say goodbye to each other. I always feel lonely and longing when he is coming back to see me again. We both feel the same actually. Our relationship is hard and complicated, but we are trying our best to cope up with it.
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
30 May 09
Oh tell me about it, my boyfriend lives in another city as well (well he's in another country now) and I was even thinking of tying him down so he won't leave. hHahaha.. It's really difficult saying goodbye.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
29 May 09
Hello laydee. I do have troubles saying good bye to my family and good friends each time I have to leave for my school after the summer and winter vacations. It is all because of my unwilling to leave them though I know that I have to. Also there were times when I saw my foreign colleagues off at the airport and we were both so unwilling to part because of our friendship. It is really hard to say good bye when you are so good to each other and you have to.
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@Amrik09 (22)
• Italy
29 May 09
Yeah its harder to saying bye at airport :( Im here from my grandparents in India and I wont to figure out when i will have to say them good bye i love them too much! Srry 4 my bad english!
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
30 May 09
Yeah. Don't worry about your English, it's well understood. Practice makes perfect. Good luck!
@balasri (26537)
• India
29 May 09
Of course it is difficult to say good bye to some one with whom you would have spent some wonderful moments.I t happens to me every year when my sister in law leaves for her home at France after after the holidays ,staying with me with her three wonderful kids and her most magnanimous husband.We always used to freak out and pain the town red.Every time I bid farewell to them it brings a lump in my throat.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
29 May 09
Are you asking about me hving problem saying "goodbye" or saying goodbye at "airport"? I hve never said good by at airport because no one in my family had air travel except me(only once) LOL! As for saying good bye at bus station or railways stations, I feel something every time, I go. If I know that the person will be out for 15-20 days, my hearts gets heavy of emotions and somehow my eyes asks for raining. Somehow I manage them but the feeling remain inside me for a long long time.
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@uicbear (1900)
• United States
29 May 09
Saying goodbye at the airport has become much less of an emotional experience for me. Once upon a time you could go with your loved one to the gate and sit there with them until it was time for them to board. Waiting with them really made the fact they were going away even harder. Now with all the security measures, no one can go to the gate unless you have a ticket. So at most you can only walk them to the security checkpoint and there it's usually so crowded and hectic that doesn't afford much time for emotion. Even less time is afforded to you if you are dropping someone off outside. Here in Chicago traffic is being pushed through the terminals so quickly that your lucky that they let you stop at all to let your party out and let them get their bag. Then it's a quick hug or peck one the cheek and they have to run to the walkway so they don't get run over. Now the hard part is when you are driving away. That's when it usully hits me that they are gone. That's when I start to feel sad.
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@loisvite (47)
• Philippines
29 May 09
It really hurts, like in my case. The first time was when my husband have to leave and I went with him at the airport. I can't help crying since I was pregnant on our first child at that time. Even my husband, he feels very bad at that time. The second time was when he left again to work abroad, and would you believe, I'm preggy also that time, but its not that painful anymore for me, but my husband was, I saw him cry when he went inside the station. That is why the 3rd time he leaves, he went alone at the airport, its been an agreement already between us, since we know the feelings in that kind of situation. and guess what, I was again also pregnant on our 3rd child. I'm so unlucky really.. But I'm used to it, maybe its my fate. :P