DVC Jen said:
OK someone pass the tissues. Just reading this thread is making me cry.
Unfortunately I don't think this will ever get easier. Yesterday my dh and I dropped my son off at our AMTRAK station for his 5-hr. trip back to Boston. Although I'm "better" then I was last year (my son is a sophomore), I do cry when he leaves or when we drop him off.
About one week prior to his "move - in" freshman year, I sat my son down in the privacy of our home and explained that if my goodbye in his dorm (the moment I had been dreading for 18 years) seemed abrupt, to please understand that for his sake (not wanting to embarress him), and my own, I would try to make my goodbye quick........as I don't think I'd be able to leave him in a dignified way (I'm a horribly unattractive crier).
This has worked ok for me both times. The AMTRAK drop-off is hard too. You're standing there on the platform waiting for that darned train to come (and deep down hoping it never does), but it does.
I'm pretty lucky, as my son says he is happy to come home, yet he's excited when it's time to go back. I can't wait until March ( his spring break).
to you. I understand!
Hugs to all of you going throught this, but I will need them back, please, when dd leaves in a year & a half.
