is it really that uncommon to cry at airports?

But I will never, EVER cry in a bus station again, no matter what has just happened. 

I'll bet not! 

Dang!

I'm not into strangers cuddling me, unless they're Johnny Depp, Daniel Craig, Luka from ER, Jet Li or Clive Owen.  That's okay, then. 

When people get seriously emotional in places, I'm all for asking them if they're allright, well, sometimes.  I guess I've kind of gone native in many ways, because for the most part I cut such folk a wide berth.

Sorry, if that sounds harsh.

I can't imagine having a stranger try to hug me. On my last trip to England, I was sitting next to a girl who was crying and I handed her a tissue. Later we started to talk, but even just handing the tissue to her took me a while to get up the comfort for.

When people get seriously emotional in places, I'm all for asking them if they're allright, well, sometimes.  I guess I've kind of gone native in many ways, because for the most part I cut such folk a wide berth.

Sorry, if that sounds harsh.

I don't think it sounds harsh at all.  I think I would have died if someone had come up and hugged me after my family left. 

That bus station experience sounds absolutely hellish. 

I'm absolutely rubbish in airports. I really shouldn't even go. 

I cried just today when I said goodbye to my parents  :\\\'(

When we used to say see ya later at the airport we both cried, no one ever hugged either of us thank goodness.

However when I did move over we had gone shopping and this lady came over as we had got in the van and we thought we might have forgot something and she said heres a card for the church I go to you people look like you could do with coming we can pray for you and with your disability ................. need I say more my wife could not get the car started and reversing quickly enough I have no idea what the woman thought she and her church would do for us, I think she may have said the word cure at one point but well even the doctors can't do that yet I am still waiting, I wish people would think, howeve now it is really funny thinking back over what happened and in her own way she was trying to be kind, but really unless its guareented that I will go through the whole visa process with no hassel or stress then I do not think she could have helped.

Indy

I remember leaving after my first visit, I was crying bucketloads going through security.  The lady was really nice and sympathetic though.  :\\\'(

Mom said last night she's already dreading her and Dad saying goodbye when they go and they've not even arrived yet!   

I cried my eyes out the first time I left my bf at Heathrow and flew back to JFK. I also cried after leaving my Mom at Gatwick after she visited in January.
I have never had anyone say anything to me about crying or try to offer any support. I think the airport is a very emotional place!

I'm always crying at the airport goodbyes, usually start getting teary the day or two before too.
My boyfriend (a brit) actually got stopped and questioned after he got through security and right before he was getting on his plane to return home after visiting me because he was tearing up they thought he looked troubled.  Poor guy had to explain the whole situation and why he looked so upset before they'd let him go back home.
Totally odd!
He's had to force himself to to suck it up and play it cool when he leaves me now haha!

I always, always cry.  Most of the time i cried the whole way back on the airplane.  People would sometimes look at me funny..but never say anything. 

I live here now, but i still have to return to Michigan for my daughter to visit her dad..i still cry every time i have to leave.  Then when i leave Michigan to come back i cry.  I can't win lol.

We've never gone into the airport as the other was leaving.  In the U.S. we would drop each other off, even before the security changes made it pointless to do anything else.  Usually, whoever was not going needed to get back to work/drop the kids off at school or some other task.  When it was me doing the dropping off, I usually didn't cry until I finally went to bed that night, and realized I was alone.   

It's much the same here, he takes taxi or bus to train station, and train to airport, and I certainly can't take myself and the baby through all that just to say good bye.  So, again, he leaves in a.m. and it's only much later that I have to face it. 

Now, when I'm the traveller, I do get teary eyed when he drives off.  But on the one hand, I'm another one of those private types, and on the other hand, I'm generally pretty excited to be on my own - a rarity.

Of course it's normal! Don't worry about the others. Last time I had to leave my man in Atlanta I was sobbing into his jacket and I bet afterwards it looked like snails had been crawling all over it and when I came to the security thingy and I turned around and saw him standing there all alone I just started all over again. There was a lady in uniform and she said to me 'Don't worry. You'll see him again.' ..and I felt so bloody patronised. I mean what the hell does she bloody know? silly moo   
I just sniffled and walked on without saying anything but that day I didn't see anyone else cry, but I sort of doubt very much I was the only one ...
to be honest, at least we got someone to cry over....a lot of people don't even have that 

xx

i always, always cry.
airports ... bus stations ...

boyfriend and i got to the airport 3 days ago .. his flight was to take off at 12:20 pm and we got to the airport around 11:10 am. we get to the front desk and they tell us that he's late and they've given his seat away to someone else, so he's got to be rebooked for the next day. at the same time i was just crying hysterically ... still overwhelmed that the BF is leaving but at the same time SO happy that he gets to stay another day with me. i thanked the ticket attendant for letting him stay the extra day and she just smiled and winked at me.

needless to say .. i was still pretty hysterical the next day when saying bye to him. the woman at security checkpoint watched us for a few minutes but when we said our goodbyes she told me not to worry and that i'll see him again.

funny how reassurance from strangers can lift you up sometimes.

Nope.

After three visits, I still bawl. I couldn't even see him off, because I knew I wouldn't let him leave.

I bawled my eyes out everytime....I felt really awkward because I couldn't stop.  I really got booing once I was sat in the departure lounge on my own...