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!

To each their own but it's not for me. I like my hands free. I always use a cross body handbag and the only time we hold hands outside is when dh is helping me over a riverbed or on shale.

I used to love the fact that my grandparents held hands when they were out. I used to do it with DH but he uses a stick now (42)!

Dawndonna - when I first read that I thought you meant he uses a stick to beat you off!

I'm sure he looks very dapper!

Everybody Just got tea on the screen!
He looks like Dave Grohl, with a walking stick!

I'm always holding a small child's hand it seems so no I don't hold DH's hand - perhaps if we're out for the evening i do but that's more to stop me falling over in my heels.

And driving etc whilst holding hands - wow just wow.

We hold hands while driving and everything. I don't care if anyone finds it rude! We'll always unlink if we're in the way etc and go single file where required

We hold hands while driving and everything. I don't care if anyone finds it rude! We'll always unlink if we're in the way etc and go single file where required

Dh and I do hold hands sometimes. We are both 50. I told him when we start to wear matching sweaters to shoot me.

There are some real miserable fuckers here! DH and I hold hands, or the more old fashioned way where he hold his arm out and I loop my arm through. We also have a joint email! Though to be fair, we also have individual emails, the joint one is for anything that both of us need access to (eg. used as the sign in for sites we both use, like amazon)

I'm in the annoying camp too. I think public hand holding is cringeworthy, but each to their own.

Just to point out that holding hands is very different from kissing, cuddling and feeding each other in public! DH and I hold hands but wouldn't dream of feeding each other or draping all over each other in public! Surely holding hands isn't in that camp is it? Although granted the people who do the rest will probably also hold hands but not all of us hand holders are that bad!

As for joint emails, if I want to email you I want to email you not your household. If I put a letter through your door, would I just put Smith household if it is just to you, or would I put Jane Smith? Same principle, I'd rather direct it at you rather than ask others to read it and see if it is for you or them. DH and I have separate emails and people email us about some of the same things, but mostly about things that he or I wouldn't care about or just plain had nothing to do with the other. I just find joint emails very odd.

What's odd about joint emails? Our whole family uses the same email address! If it's anything personal you don't put it in an email in the first place ...

DP & I hold hands if we're on wide enough pavements (both 32, together for 13 years), but don't if there isn't space for someone to walk past us. I dunno, we just do it, we always have done.

My neighbours do annoy me with their handholding. It's not their age (late 50s/early 60s), it's the fact that he always walks slightly ahead of her, she always has her head down, and it looks like he's leading her past a pack of paparazzi. Sometimes she even clutches the collar of her coat, like she's trying to hide her face. I want to bang on the window and shout 'You're walking past me doing the washing up! No one is trying to get a picture of your knickers!'.

Intensely annoying when politicians do it as a photo opportunity. I mean, take Gordon Brown, for instance. Can you imagine a less "handy-holdingy" person? Yet he was always glued to Sarah on the way into the Labour conference.
And as for the Clintons! Remember after the Monica Lewinsky debacle and they'd clearly been told to present a united front. Obviously Hillary couldn't bring herself to go anywhere near him, so they wheeled out Chelsea and made her go in the middle!

ohh how SWEET!!!!!!!!!! It is my brother and girlfriend's kissing (with tongue too) what I find annoying!!!!!!!!!1

Sweet!! Very. very sweet.
Sensuallettuce, that is just plain odd. Have a couple of couples on my FB and am seriously thinking of deleting them. One couple Urgh, HE puts ''I love my 'Gfs name' so much '' as a status update and she answers in another status update. Or at least that is how it looks, maybe she is doing it all!

Haha, I can't stand couples that declare heir live to each other via Facebook. They're probably in the same room FGS!

Surely I can tell my husband face to face that I love him?? Or is it just those who are insecure and desperate to show the world how 'happy' they are??

Sorry, declare their love not live!

When I was working I used to regularly pass a teeny tiny, very ancient couple who went everywhere holding hands. She had lots of make-up on and her hair in a beautiful bun, he wore a cap. They pottered everywhere together and were so kind and solicitous to each other. One day, she wasn't there holding his hand. I never saw her again and he sort of crumpled into such a sad little man.

YABU Let them hold hands, life is too short not to relish every moment with the person you love.

Aaargh! piprabbit! Now I have to go to bed all miserable ...

95% sweet, but also a bit myopic, like other people's need for space doesn't exist.

Sorry .

Oh I'm going to MAKE DH hold hands tomorrow! I'm excited now...he'll be all but will go with it if I tell him to explain that it's important to me.

DP and I hold hands when when we're out. We hold hands in the car. And we hold hands while watching telly.

We're like Siamese twins, when we're not joined at the hip, we're joined at the groin

How on earth do you hold hands whilst driving? Surely you should have both hands on the wheel at least the majority of the time?