How do you react at the airport?

[OtantikTin]

Just curious our time is coming and I'm wondering how we'll react after 4 months without seeing eachother. My guess is we'll probably cry, at least if he doesn't, I sure will, because only the thought of it brings tears to my eyes.

I'm very much looking forward for the endless hug we'll share. Ergh. I want to know your reaction to meeting your SO for the first time or after a long time.

[kittyxuchiha11]

Well for my ex when i met her at the airport she just sort of appeared in front of me and hugged me and i hugged her back and it was all smiley and nice and i do believe the first words i said to her were "wow you really are tiny" i know, i'm the master of romance haha. it was all very casual and not really emotional at all.

With my current SO i had to wait at the airport for her because my flights got changed and i was due to arrive at 7pm originally but ended up arriving at 11am and just sort of had to message her like hey guess who's here very early and she was like oh dear i'm still at home be there as quick as i can. So i had to sit and wait for her for the best part of an hour and then when we saw each other we just sort of shared a hug quick hug and then had to run to catch the bus. yet again very casual and it was just like i was next to someone i'd known for a long time and it didn't feel any differently or anything really special. it set in a couple of days after this that i was with her in her country and this was indeed something not ordinary and i had a reason to be excited.

Other people will probably have stories about how when they saw their SO it was magical and everything seemed like a dream but to me it was just really casual and nothing was really different apart from that the person i'd been talking to for the last year and could now just hold her hand and and see her smile not through a screen. This is probably going to be the most boring response you get for this thread lol.

[Mr Gravy]

This is probably going to be the most boring response you get for this thread lol.

I wouldn't bet on it. Our first meeting was not that different from yours. Due to our flight schedules I arrived at Boston 6 hours before my girlfriend. It had already been a long time and by the time that her plane landed (I vividly remember the feeling when the display switched from 'landing' to 'landed') I had already been awake for over 20 hours with no naps. Since my phone was pretty much dead, I patiently watched the stream of people which I assumed to be the one coming from her flight. And then I spotted her coming around the corner. Our eyes met within seconds. No corny music, no running towards each other in slow motion. Instead, we both started smiling like idiots and hugged as soon as she reached me.
Just like you said, it felt more like reuniting with an old friend rather than meeting for the first time. Despite both of us being sort of shy and introverted, neither of us was nervous and nothing about it felt awkward.

[QueenD]

When my boyfriend picks me up in SC, he gets me at the curb outside baggage claim. We hug really tight and always get a good kiss or two and then hop in the car to go to wherever is next.

[Redheart14]

My SO told me he was late. As I got to the baggage claim. He was there with a hand made sign with my pet name on it like the chauffeurs. He's not a big PDA person so we held hands as we left the airport. When we got out we hugged kissed and he carried me over the threshold all the was from the car park to his car. Crying with us only happens through me and it's only when a visit has come to an end. The start I'm way too excited to cry.

[differentcountries]

I met SO on my holiday, we had this whirlwind romance starting before I left. When I first visited after 2 months, the first thing I thought when I saw him was "He is in 3 D" and "He is so short", and then we kissed and everything felt like before. He did not dare kiss me for long because he was very self councious about people watching us (this lasted until the middle of our next visit, where he had a sort of fuck it-moment). We held hands at the bus, without as much as looking at each other - an old lady looked at us like that was pure porn lol. SO was very akward, not all all used to handling the attention of white-arab love affairs outside of tourist resorts. I did not get a second alone with him all evening, because when we came to the house, it was full of people and it was my birthday party 1 month in advance! Everyone was interviewing me and commenting on my looks etc, and the sofas were arranged in ways I found strange. I remember the food was so delicious and I think I got him to myself like 2 in the morning

4 months has been the longest we have been apart, too, it was from March to July. July is high season so SO could not take time off to meet me at the airport - I took the transfer minibus like everyone else. The first person I talked to after 4 months outside of Turkey was the transfer bus guy, who I have known a few years. He said he had not seen me in a while, I told him I had been to Turkey but to SOs home town and we talked about how the food traditions of my SOs hometime are really something (he comes from close to where all the famous kebabs are from. Plus everything is organic and fresh there). Then I was driven to the hotel/rented flat where I got handed a key and SO's bag. I could relax, take a shower and change clothes. Then I walked over to his job a few blocks away. There I saw him again after 4 months - in front of his coworkers and guests. I dont think we touched at all. I think I made a joke, like "I am very happy to attend your beautiful restaurant, I hear the waiters here are attentive". He was tired but still happy to see me. I got a bear hug from his friend and the evening singer sang love songs. I spent the next 4 hours eating a full dinner, dessert, wine, snacks etc. and then we went grocery shopping for the night/morningat the kiosk because he had not been able to get anything. Then we went back to the hotel together - it was weird because it was intense having him alone, and still I felt like the patient wife waiting for her husband to finally come home at the end of the day. He took a shower by himself and he made us drinks. Then I started to feel like I hade come home, too. I was just home.

[xxcazaxx]

I was super tired and feeling a bit nervous as this was the first time that I had seen him since we had become a couple. The thing that worried me had been not having anything to talk about. I had kind of blocked the thought out of my mind on the first flight, telling myself that I would think about it on the second flight, but as it turned out I was so tired on my flight into Delhi (having been up for nearly 24 hours) that I could barely keep my eyes open never mind do anything else. But I needn't have worried. Unless you are flying, they don't let you inside Delhi airport and cars can't stop and wait at the front so he was waiting in a car nearby. I had texted him to let him know that I had landed and waited at the front of the airport. He then came over and gave me a bouquet of flowers and a big hug (he said that he wanted to kiss me there and then, but had been aware that there were a lot of people staring). We went back into the hotel, holding hands all of the way and I really needn't have worried about not having anything to talk about as conversation flowed as well as ever.

[BaconGirl05]

When I flew to see my SO in Australia, I was exhausted, but excited to meet him. We hadn't seen each other for a few days because we wanted our first meeting in person to be special. I didn't know what to expect when walking out of customs. I was just kind of awkward about it and walking around not knowing where he was waiting for me. But we saw each other and just instantly knew who we were. I ran up to him and hugged him for the longest time. We tried not to cry as we told each other we loved each other..and his mom got the whole thing on camera, so we get to relive that special moment! He also got me a rose! That was a nice surprise. After that, we just cuddled in the back of the car the whole way home. It was very special and I surely won't ever forget it:3

[staruletto]

I'm terrible at finding anyone in a crowd. It could be my mother and I'll be walking around aloof while she's flailing and waiving her arms. So needless to say, he found me first. And snuck up on me and scared the shit out of me. But I got to hug him so it was ok. It was really like meeting up with an old friend more than anything. He was surprised by how short I really am xD

[ChloChlo]

At our first meeting, my SO was held by customs for like an hour and interrogated pretty harshly because they were suspicious of the shortness of his trip. Like why else would someone fly into possibly the most boring city in Canada for just 2 days unless it was for nefarious reasons, right? It probably didn't help that he was a little too honest for the officers and said the purpose of his visit was "to meet a girl", bless his heart. An officer actually came out to question me about him before they would let him go, so the first thing I said to him once he was finally released was "so... are you a drug mule or what" and he flung himself into my arms and we laughed and he was shaking because he was so nervous and rattled, and then we just kind of mashed our faces together.

Usually whenever I meet him after being apart, I'm laughing and grinning like a fool (like Mr Gravy, I'm a proud member of the "smiling like an idiot" club) - I don't cry until after I say goodbye, usually, and lose sight of him as one of us clears security. We do tend to hug before kissing, I find. We just cling to each other. And then for a couple hours afterwards I'll intermittently just reach out to touch him and say "you're here, you're right here!". It takes a while for it to sink in sometimes

[BFG]

When she moved away from Australia, i didn't go to the airport, I couldn't. I dropped her off at her parents house the night before and kissed her in their driveway. I held her, stroked her hair and said "its not goodbye, it's see you next time". I knew why she had to move away and I understood.

Our first reunion was 8 months later and it had been a big time in our lives for the both of us. She didn't meet me at the airport, instead I made my way to her house and she ran out to meet me in the dingy, dimly lit stairwell of her apartment building...."I couldn't wait for you to come to the door". I'll never forget that first hug in 8 months. The way i dropped my duffel bag when i saw her and it tumbled down 2 flights of stairs and i didn't care because i was engrossed in love and in her.

She came to the airport with me when I had to come back home. We'd been together for a month and I didn't want to leave. She didn't want me to leave. It was alright until i had to go through security and passport control and we had to actually say goodbye. I had to walk away, I felt like i couldnt. I just had to pick one foot up and move it about a foot thattaway and then pick the other foot and move it over there too and keep doing that until i got back to my sunburned land down under. But I couldn't, i felt stuck and frozen. I had to drag myself through border control and she stood there the whole time, crying, watching me leave her behind. It was horrible, i hated it. I think the lady who stamped my passport must have been watching because when she gave my passport back she said "You two will be alright, dinnae worry about it" and i was like "uhuh, thanks, have a good day" and just ran off to go cry in a corner somewhere. The last time i saw her face it was covered in tears because I was leaving and we didn't know how long for.

The actual worst, airports are like downtown after 2am.....nothing good happens there.

[OtantikTin]

It's very interesing to read about you guys! Fun to see how different it is for everyone. I'm a very emotional type, but it's definitely not always a good thing for a LDR as I often find myself drift away and feel desperate and sad; it affects the way I work greatly. Only 45 days left until we meet again! Hope that flight won't be reported. Ugh.

[jennefer]

In my case I traveled around 15 hours from Panamá to Italy, and I remember i was so nervous because an italian police stopped me near the exit to ask me some questions like if i was going to work there and other things, then he return me my passport and I remember i was sweating (the weather was 9°) and I read a huge word near a green door who says USCITA (i didn't realize that uscita is exit in english) and i only walk to the green door (confused and tired) and when the door was opened I looked up and the first thing my eyes looked was my bf there with a FACE!! like wow! and he screamed "MI AMORR"" (is my love in spanish) in front all people and hugged me with all his strength and gave me a kiss, took my face and told me i can't believe it you are real and you are here!

Honestly I was in shock, i was with my face red, all people looked me and I just told him "give me some minutes honey I I I I..... I am in shock hahah

Since I saw at him I understood that he is my complement

[SailorRei]

When we meet at the airport I'm always super happy but also always little bit awkward.. we only see each other once every 2-4 months, so I feel super awkward at the beginning..
When we part I always cry with no fail

[TheSteelAngel]

I only met him once in person and when I did I jumped because he scared me lol. He saw me and screamed out my name and he just surprised me lol. Then I ran over to him and we hugged for a long time before I finally looked up and he kissed me