Quote Originally Posted by USA View Post
Well I finally went ahead and took the plunge of buying airline tickets to see for the FIRST TIME my GF in the Phil!
Usually I`m quite calm after making this type of decision but I am extremely anxious today about it (I just now purchased the tix).
Ask yourself if your anxiety is just nerves about a new experience or the result of outside influences in opposition to where you're going or why you're going to RP.. If it's your own anxiety, then I'd think about it if I were you. Ask yourself if it's a GUT instinct... and then ask yourself how accurate your previous gut instincts have been.
That was the short answer.
Personally, under other circumstances, it would have been enough for me.

When I reserved my flight and booked coach transport to airport, I felt GREAT... but then Family voiced concerns. Still felt GREAT. Friends of mine, UK mate and Pina wife, were to go on same coach and flight, so nothing to feel nervous about. Coach to airport took about 5hrs and I'm not a bad traveller, but 20miles from start of journey I started to vomit... and I spewed all the way to Heathrow.

Seven hours wait for ticket desk to open didn't help, then 5hrs wait for boarding call made matters worse and I was in 2 minds whether to go on or go home. Even in Doha, where we had a 4hr stopover, I wondered if I should go no further and return to UK.. Having consideration for my lady, who was making an overnight journey to meet me, and thinking my unease was a mixture of negative feedback and an irrational fear of the unknown, I carried on to Phils. We met, spent 12 days together, cemented our bond, and I was hooked for sure.
And that's why, my friend, I said the short answer would have been enough for me... under other circumstances.
It's that thing, dontcha know

My lady, M, and I are now in week 60 of our relationship... and I'm STILL asking myself what caused the anxiety 11 months ago. My gut instinct has never let me down in business or other areas but, currently, the jury are deliberating.

The arrangements you've stated for your visit sound like it should be a pleasant experience, and I truly hope it will be so. If your lady has none of the complications that my lady has, then it probably will be. Good Luck, mate.

Ken