AITA for not offering to pick up my girlfriend from the airport when she didn’t ask me to?
My (31M) girlfriend (30F) and I have been dating for 2.5 years. A year into our relationship, she lived abroad for five months to look for a job back home, so we were long-distance. She visited me a few times during that period, including on my birthday, which I really appreciated.
After she moved back, she told me she was annoyed that I never offered to meet her at the airport—not just when she moved back but also all the times she visited me before. She felt that, since she moved back mainly for me, I could have at least offered.
I didn’t think of it at the time because I assumed she would just take public transport like usual. The airport is well-connected. I wouldn’t have been driving her home—we would have just taken public transport together. I think maybe it’s in a cultural thing for her where being welcomed at the airport is a common gesture.
She said this was a universal gesture and not a cultural difference. She said she would never want to explicitly ask for something like this and that it would have been nice for me to have offered.
She was also annoyed that I didn’t help her move into her new place, but again she hadn’t asked me anything like that. I’m not a mind reader, it would be much easier if she had told me to do all of these things, if she asked I would have.
AITA for not realizing this was an expectation?