I [29f] felt completely ignored by my fiance[31m] for a complete stranger at the airport. Now I feel like a whole jerk after he explained his actions.

TL;DR - Fiance completely ignored me for some stranger at the airport. Nope. Turns out i'm an idiot. Now I can't stop feeling like a jerk and don't know how to say i'm sorry.

My fiance(Dave) and I were exiting the plane and there was a young woman carrying a child in one arm and pushing another in a stroller with the other arm. She was having a tough time controlling the stroller and the kid so Dave asked her if she needed help and she was grateful. Dave, who was carrying our duffels, just hands me one, slung his on his shoulder, pushed the stroller, and one of her bags. This is where I feel like shit.

Dave is in front of me and helping woman to the baggage claim, where we don't even have to go since we don't have checked baggage, and it feels like he's not even paying attention to me, like he's just chatting with her and walking fast(to me at least) and didn't even look back to check to see if i'm still there or if i'm ok. We get to an elevator and I ask if there's anywhere I can wait since, again, we didn't even need to go all the far to baggage claim. He says there is nearby and then he carries my bag as well until we get to where I can sit down and watch our bags while he helps her get hers. A few minutes after he grabs her luggage her husband gets there(he wasn't on the flight) and they both thank Dave and we leave.

Now is where I brought it up how he had made me feel completely ignored but then he said "I did quickly glance back periodically, but I knew you were still close behind because I could hear your heels, if I didn't anymore I would've stopped. And I kept chatting her up because she was clearly having a rough time so I wanted here to have at least a moment of peace where she could do anything other than stress."

And that's where it really hit me and made me realize how shitty I probably sounded. About Dave, he is by far the kindest person I have ever met, he's a saint and would, obviously, help out a complete stranger if they needed it. I feel extra bad because after hearing him explain what he did I thought "oh, yeah, you would do it like that". He would never make anyone feel bad at all but here I was feeling like he was purposefully ignoring me. It made absolutely no sense once I thought about it clearly and now I can't shake it and don't know how to approach him. Any suggestions or advice are welcome.

Submitted June 02, 2021 at 04:41PM by YeahIHaveNoShame https://ift.tt/3phVFJE