Do you escort your loved ones to the railway station or airport to see off??

I know is hard but I prefer escort them.I like use even the last moment with them . Ones when I was young (18)I went to the airport with my husband,was my boyfriend then.He was going back to him country and we didn't know if and how will come back .Was really hard.I tough was the harder goodbye until.........before 4 years when my son was 8 years old we decided sent him to him grandparents at Egypt ,none of us couldn't go these year,so we sent him alone with the air hostess.Was the harder thing I ever done.Just after the airplane left the airport I call to close ticket as soon I can find place for I go behind him at Egypt.Was August,difficult month for you find ticket the last moment,I find one after 29 days ....was for 1 day before my son would coma back to us.I didn't care,even 1 day was important.I went and we sit 1 more month there.I never let him travel again alone without me.

MIMPI, Very good discussion. Full marks to you. Yes, you have raised a very interesting question. But before I go ahead. I would like to know - Are you emotional or say sentimental? Yes, I make it a point to see my relatives off to railway stations, bus stand or airport, as the case may be, invariably. It is true that I also get emotional, when see them off. I feel it is my duty to see my relatives, friends off to railway station. I feel, that one who has visited us and has spent his moments and time with us, so it a part of courtesy that we should surely escort him/her to railways station etc. Though, I feel bad when bidding buy in such cases, yet I try my level best to escort my relatives or friends to station. Of course receiving them gives great pleasure and happiness. I also make it a point, that if any of our relatives is coming form outside, and if he has to stay with us...I will definitely go and receive him. Or for that matter, if someone is passing through Delhi and he is on train, and if I get the message that he would be passing through Delhi...I would go to station to see him. (One of my 'Maasi' is very emotional, she stays at Lucknow...every time we visit her and when we come back...she cannot stop herself crying or sobbing...while departing we alwyas find her in tears and that also makes us sad). deepak

i will always send my loved one, and yes, i will cry at times but then it will be better than staying locked up at home, wondering whether they left already or not. when i was first with my bf, i have to send him to the station a couple of time, and it's kinda weird but it's him who's the one crying most of the time (eventhough we are going to be apart for few weeks and we will be online most of the time)

I used to accompany them up to turning of last depart. It is just to make them feel that I am with them as far as I can. It makes them happy also. Even if we don't go, there is a moment of departure. I am not that sentimental to think that they are leaving me for ever. I am optimistic and I know that they will return to us one day and I am conveying to them that I will be here, also to receive you (or always here for you). So that's my experience Mimpi. Thank you for asking.

I do not believe in good bys, but i always escort my loved ones to the rail station or to the airport, but i always use the excuse that it is because i am giving them a ride to the airport. they usually tell me that i do not have a car..( and lol they are usually right about that), but i still find a way of getting away from this emotionally feeling act of saying goodbye.

I mostly don't go to see off my loved ones as i get emotional and cry...So avoid going...

I can't help doing that.All my in laws are depending on me and love me so much,I make it a point to go to the airport and railway stations to send them of.I just love them and like to do this always.

Yes I do whenever my Daughter comes to see me or my Friend I will go to the Station to meet them and I also take them back Yes it is hard but I do it

Hey mimpi, one of the things that i really do not like, or i can tell you directly that i can not handle is goodbye's. I just do not like goodbye, but then again i will always escort my loved one to the airport or train station, i would never forgive myself if i would not do so. So yes i do, and yes i get very emotional and everything and tell myself that i won't be able to do that again, but everytime the story repeats himself..:)

I used to send off my loved ones but not anymore. Just like you, I cant control my emotion and cry each time. So, I just bid them farewell from home.

me too! not because i cry when i do but because it gives me the feeling that they are going to go back anyway so theres no need to see them off!

I have got very much used to seeing relatives off so that does not make any difference to me now. But when I first left my daughter in the boarding school it was very hard for me. She had never been away from home before so it was all the more tough. Now that she is back from the boarding I am most happy.

Good day.. Yes I would though I must control my sadness. In the contrary I don't want to be escorted when it's me who is leaving. I don't want or feel the sadness of the people I love. Strange aint it?

I remember my closest friends and family seeing me off at the airport every time I leave the country. And it always feels bittersweet. Sister and I would always hold off the tears until we hear the last boarding call and tears would start. I always hug my dad as much as I could that last moment before I walk into that secured passenger area. When Boyfriend went to Prague, I took him to the airport. It was early in our relationship and I drove back all alone. Of course, the pick-up was even better. Now, we take our trips together. We always see Sister off to the airport. Since the airport here is about an hour and a half, it's not as easy and convenient for us to see everyone off to the airport but I would call my friends the night before they leave and tell them to take care. We're the wave-to-the-person-leaving-until-you-can't-see-him/her-no-more bunch at the airport. My post is all over the place, I'm so sorry.

This is the hardest thing to do. But yes i need to see them board safely to the plane,train or something, thought it will makes me cry. This is very important for us to scort our family boarding.

lol..with so many goodbyes in my lifetime....I have got used to it...and I don't feel sentimental when a loved one leaves after a visit. I've seen my aunts cry everytime my uncles leave. But I'm not like that. Maybe I'm not wired like that. I might be a little sad....but I'd rather look forward to the next visit than be sad about them going away. I like going to the airport /railway station to send them off....but now it gets tough handling the kids...so I stay home.

I would do so wherever possible yes. If they are going away even for only a short time I would want to milk every second with them that I possibly could before they leave! And I agree 100% that there is nothing more exciting than waiting in anticipation at the airport and searching through the crowds of people getting off a flight just trying to catch that first glimpse of your loved one! In a way it is the same feelings I used to get when I was a kid getting all excited on Christmas Eve! You are a blend of nerves and excitement all in one!

Tell me about it lo..Every time I have toleave my Beloved tocome to the U.K again I cry likemad..I love to take family and friends to the airport and stuff if I know they are going away for a holiday but leaving my husband one end then leaving my son the other end really kills me lol.I mkiss both of thewm every time, each one with a different kind of love. But I dolike the food at the airports lol hahaa

Hi there... I agree with you, bidding goodbyes are hard, I dont like them at all, but they are something we all have to experience at some stage and accept that the people we do bid farewell too, are hopefully coming back again soon... Have a great day...

My two niece who are 9 and 5 years, makes my eyes moist, when they leave my home after every summer. Sure they would insist me to come to the bus stand, and put them in the bus.. and they will keep on telling me " bye Mama, bye Mama.." till the bus departs.. Really the kids are of pure love and affections. Other than these two girls, ehh.. i never feel bad when they go.. but for formality sake i may escort them to the bus stand or railway station..