is this annoying? Or sweet?

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My parents (well, DF and DSM) always hold hands. I mean always. When they are going for a walk, or out shopping, they have to hold hands. I'm not sure who the hand holder is but they always do.

The thing is that it means when I'm trying to walk with them I have to walk in front or behind, because otherwise no one else can fit on the pavement or whatever. It's also a pain when it's busy - people are stepping around them, but no, they are one person it seems.

AIBU? I know it isn't life or death but it annoys me SO much!

Or hold hands in the gear stick?!

On doh bloody iPad ...

We used to have friends who had to kiss and say "love you" before releasing hands... to walk to different sides of our car to get in the back and hold hands again...

God I think that's us lifebegins

Me and dh hold hands all the time, except in busy places. We are 30 and 37. He even ones out of the kitchen and hugs me or holds my hand while we are working at his restaurant. I like it. He always makes a point of pointing me out to the regulars (I only work when he is short staffed) and tells people how happy he is when I am there. Although I think that maybe setting up the scene for when the kids are old enough to work there. You know 'its not child labour, it makes me so happy when we are altogether'. :)

I'm in the annoying camp too

I think is sweet. I love seeing older couples showing affection to one another (as long as its not my Mum and her husband) and I hope me and dh are still like that when our dc are all Grown up.

me and dh do this

we are 32 (me) and 40 (him)

we love holding hands and sometimes even do it in the car

I think its awful but I am a terrible grumpy old gimmer.

We sometimes hold hands if out by ourselves. But wouldn't if there was a third adult present. I think it would be a bit thoughtless. And wouldn't in a crowded street if others were trying to get past.

we sometimes hold hands and have been married for 103 years :)

Annoying and a bit weird really in adults imo... Very cute in small children however it always looks a bit too close and childish to me when I see grown people do this.

I also think it's a bit rude to hold hands when you are walking with other people who then have to walk alone or behind you.

Sweet when I see other people doing it so long as they don't get in my way. We too used to hold hands, before the children arrived and needed handcuffing to us.

if it's busy then it is annoying as they impede the natural flow of pedestrians

I once had an argument with a woman who was walking down the pavement holding her boyfriends hand. it was narrow so you couldn't really walk 2 abreast and have people walking in both directions. People ahead of me were stepping into the road to get past this couple so I stuck to my line walking along the wall. We had a bit of a stand off and then she asked me to move. I said I couldn't because they had left no space on the pavement and she called me a fucking bitch.
as everyone going my way had now started walking on the wall side her boyfriend was obliged to walk on the road so they could continue to hold hands

DH and I always hold hands, but break off if it would inconvenience someone walking the other way.

I wouldn't expect the stepkids to be upset that we hold hands (although I imagine we are horrifically embarassing )

BIL and SIL hold hands all the time

it is annoying because it means they have to feed each other and they frequently sit on each others lap (nearly breaking our dining chair on one occasion) and they look at a loss if for some reason they have to break off for a nanosecond

Dp and I hold hands my parents hold hands and mil and her husband also hold hands. I see nothing wrong with it personally.

Hang on! Just going back a bit. Why are joint emails annoying? I just regard the inbox as a letterbox. Any emails for dh remain unopened and same with mine if he opens. We both delete spam. No problem!

we hold hands too, unless i have bags that need to be carried. :D

and shamefully dh is not above trying to cop a feel by putting his hand in my jeans pocket seventies stylee. I do glare when he does that though!

Oh my, I am so glad me and dp aren't the only people who think this, my mum and her dh always hold hands, even when she was in the front and him the back of the car for a 120mile journey even sitting on the sofa together.

Its fucking pathetic and smacks of a massive band aid on an other wise shitty relationship. Or proving something to the world --since she's old enough to be his mum--

Me and dp find it very awkward, seriously when they stay at ours if me and dp happen to sit on a sofa each which we usually do, you should see the faces we get. They rival, no beat my stroppy 3 and 4yos! (Not being arseholes our sofas are 8ft long so they could easily still sit together.

Also cinema trip recently, me with my 2 dc, them with their 2. I end up in the middle of the 4 dc and they're on the end wrapped up in each other, dsis tells me her or dbro always end up on the end iyswim. They're 3 and 6 FFS!

It is annoying and rude when it is at the exclusion of others or inconveniences others

I remember sitting down for lunch one day. BIL and SIL were last and had a cob on all meal time because the only chairs left weren't next to each other. They ended up sharing a chair and Dh couldn't stop himself laughing which started us all off and they stropped off!

Oh yuck EverybodysSleepEyed!

They feed each other?

I'm sorry but that is just sad. How old are they? It sounds as if you are talking about toddlers fgs!

well when they started dating they were early 20's.

Now I have DC my strategy is to launch the kids at them as this forces them to separate - luckily they are very good with the kids now and are happy to play with them instead!

Hand holding is fine, but blocking the pavement is annoying.

However, even though I don't usually hold hands with DH I still constantly find myself in supermarkets irritatedly steering him out of the way because of his love of standing like a chump in the exact middle of the aisle with the trolley blocking the rest of it. Some people just do not seem to have any sensitivity to the people around them.

I'm always a little bit jealous of people holding hands.

I like the idea of romantically walking along holding hands but after a couple of seconds a short while I just find it annoying so have to break off