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My husband and I plan on buying in TV a little later this year and staying for the winters (for now). He is retired but I am still working in Michigan and try to keep an eye on my 80+ year old mother. I will most likely need to travel back and forth every few weeks.

I have flown many times in my life. At the start it was OK - never really liked it but could handle it. Since that time I have been in a few storms and now there is fear. As I get older, the bigger my chicken wings. 9/11 has only made the fear stronger.

I love to drive and never did mind the drive to Florida and back - but in the real world I know it would be much quicker/safer/cheaper to fly. I have tried drugs (prescribed by my doctor) but my anxiety kicks in and it is as though I never took a pill at all.

Has anyone else who hates to fly ever gotten over it and if so, how did you do it?