couples walking through shops holding hands

[DosDuchas]

Has anyone ever BARGED through the barrier they create and shouted STOP HOLDING HANDS FGS YOU ANNOYING PEOPLE?
( or perhaps something snappier?)

marks and spencer today - it was like british bloody bulldog, especially when the man LEADS the woman through the shops, swerving past racks of clothes, creating a four foot wide barrier

That's odd Biwi. Why joint email

I just think it's a bit pathetic really. I mean, DH and I have a great relationship, but we don't need to prove to the world that we're together every time we leave the house. I don't "get" hand holding just as I don't "get" snogging in the street unless you're 15 years old and have nowhere else to go.
I'm so glad I don't live in your miserable world. I don't hold hands with my husband to prove anything - it just feels nice and we like doing it. I don't "get" what you don't "get" about that.

I don't care what people think I do love the superior tone of some though re their 'independence' as if hand holding means you aren't!

None of this hand holding is anywhere near as annoying as the couple's who go supermarket shopping together AND TAKE ALL THEIR CHILDREN.
Fgs, one of you go and the other look after the kids at home-it's not an adorable family activity and you're blocking the aisles. You don't need 5 people to choose a tin of tomatoes

I'm with you snice

I just think it's a bit pathetic really. I mean, DH and I have a great relationship, but we don't need to prove to the world that we're together every time we leave the house. I don't "get" hand holding just as I don't "get" snogging in the street unless you're 15 years old and have nowhere else to go.

Again how sad that you look at an act of genuine affection and see something sinister about it. It is nothing to do with proving out love to random stranger - which I agree would be off. We are just tactile people. If we are alone in a room we will be touching, nobody sees us. We go to sleep intertwined- again nobody sees that.

My hand gets all hot. I hate it.

Dos - for joint/domestic correspondence - it's just easier. Means we both see stuff, friends only have to send one email about social stuff.

Similar to having a joint bank account for domestic stuff alongside personal ones.

We have a joint email as well as single emails. Saves one of us having to forward the email so we can enter dates into our diary. It syncs with a family calendar that also links with our single calendars.

I can't sleep near anyone always turn my back and apparently that's a sign of an insecure relationship It's all bollox

lol Noddy

We sleep with our backs to one another but all entwined if that makes sense- although I have to have one foot sticking out from the duvet or I feel claustrophobic.

I didn't realize people were so angry at something as simple as holding hands?

Imagine the outrage you all would feel when my and my DH actually stop in the middle of the shop to hug and we even kiss. Sometimes DD insists on being part and shouts "family cuddle!".

im not personally one for pda but have no issue people with hand holding.

I do however have a problem with gropey people at bus stops - full on hands down trousers. this is daytime too!! and the food sharing - the other day there was a couple in mcdonalds sharing and snogging over a chip at the counter. completely unnecessary!

I'm so glad you've posted this OP as I really did think that I was the only person in the world to be irritated by hand holding couples. It's kind of sweet when it's teenagers or elderly couples doing it, but anyone in between needs to just stop it.

I tell you what annoys me the most, when a couple holding hands is walking towards you and they refuse to break hold, so you have to walk around them. It's rude actually.

Joint and individual emails here too. For holidays and bills and such.

I've always found it strange why people don't like this. It's about love or it's about sex and both are pretty good things. We need to guard against ISIS/Taliban kind of prohibitions.

We've been a lot more hand holdy and buggy this year since DH has been ill. Got to make the most of it.

Huggy not buggy.

@ my heart still flips.

15 years of marriage and there is no flipping here. We've shared a bathroom for far too many years

YABU, and a bit miserable and bitter to be honest.

We often hold hands/hug/kiss (no tongues) in public. If this pisses people off, it's their problem, not mine.

At legoland there is a 2 minute train ride down to the park, the yellow carriage is buggy's only with one adult - the amount of families that cannot separate for 2 minutes. It's unbelievable. They have to be almost pulled apart by the person in charge of the train.

Or adults that visit A&E in big groups. Why? I sat opposite a woman who had cut her finger last time - she had her husband and her mum with her.

So many people cannot leave the house alone.

nocuts a woman actually grabbed her partners groin walking through the tube station much to the disgust of a family of tourists. It looked quite painful tbh

I think hand holding is lovely. The divorce and break up rate is horribly high these days and if long term couples who are neither teens nor adorable pensioners want to hold hands, then that's fine by me.

When I hold hands with DH, it's not to prove a point to anyone, it's because it makes me happy that we still do it ten years after we first started holding hands.

I vote for more hand holding! It's lovely and innocent and rather sweet and to make it another of these stupid MN offences would just be beyond.

We also laugh and talk with each other