To hate goodbyes...

[Elenio]

I am sat on a boat on the way to the airport sobbing like a baby after saying goodbye to my dad :-(
I have been here for just 48 hrs on a flying visit and everytime I leave it just breaks my heart a little. I guess that it does not help that it's 30 degrees and beautiful and I am surrounded by the bluest sea! I just hate saying goodbye :-(

Aww, (hugs)

YANBU at all. How often do you get to see him?

A couple of times a year usually...my mind has been taken off the matter by the fact that the boat (actually a flying dolphin) is moving so much that it feels like its going to flip over. Sadness has been replaced by fear!

For me it's the other way around - it's my Dad (not to say I don't hate them too).

I'm an only child, my kids are the only grandchildren and we're a 7 hour flight away.
My Dad gets really upset when he leaves because he say goodbye to everyone at once.

For us, we get to see him, my Mum and her DH, the inlaws, friends etc so we're always saying good bye to someone. COupled with the fact my DH is rarely on the same continent as me, I'm kind of used to it :(

I've got 3 siblings. One in Sydney, One in Kenya and one is moving to China! I really wonder what I did to them! I hate saying goodbye to them all when they leave again.

Two of my closest friends live in China and Austria, and I have wonderful family in the US that I havent seen for nearly 3 years. Saying hello is great and being together, but saying goodbye each time breaks my heart. (very hormonal pregnant woman but true all the same) :-(
Feel for you OP x

I can relate to this, my mom is in Spain, my dad in France, my sis in Dubai...goodbyes are crap. Worse than that, all these holiday destinations and my agraphobia wont let me visit

I can totally relate - I moved offshore just over 4 years ago and all my family are still based in London.
Every time I visit and then have to leave, I get gut ache. The saying goodbye is horrendous.
DH, DS (7 months) and I are flying back at the end of May for 3 weeks and I think this will be the hardest goodbye yet. My younger DB has terminal cancer and as much as I can't wait to see him and all my family, the idea that I have to get back on a plane and leave again fills me with dread.
I'm so scared that this time might be the last that I see him in relatively good shape and it breaks my heart.
Goodbyes are horrendous but they have served to keep me massively appreciative of those I love and I can only be grateful that I have a very supportive DH and beautifully smiley DS to get me through them.

Keep your chin up OP, sending hugs your way x

YANBU
Every time my mum visits me in London (from Ireland) or I visit home, I sob when it's time to leave. It never gets easier- harder actually now I am a mum.

hugs for you xxx

I know what you mean.
I live in the UK but I come from Scandinavia and I hate saying goodbye to my parents, my sister, all my family.
I love having them visit and go over there but start dreading the goodbyes a few days early. It's awful.
It takes me a week to get over it and stop having that terrible feeling in my stomach.
(((hugs))) (as unmumsnetty as they may be!)

My mom and dad live in spain, and flew over a couple of weeks ago... It was the first time my dad had seen my dd and he only got to see her a couple of times as I live quite a distance from my siblings. When they rang to say goodbye I cried for hours :(

Suffer through the goodbyes,relish every second of the time spent before the goodbyes.Keep going back for more

My wonderful dad died 3 weeks ago, I hadnt seen him for 11 years before that,hed never met my Dd2. my oldest Ds,now 19 was in reception when he last saw them.

Regrets did you say, I have wagon loads, all because I couldnt stand the goodbyes

Stupid stupid woman that I am

((hugs(( I have family in England that I've been like this with ever since I was a litte girl. I never did grow out of it!

The hardest goodbye is the long goodbye when a loved one receives their exit pass from life with an estimate of x number of months/weeks left.