My fiancé and I are in a long distance relationship at the moment- we haven't seen each other since the end of March but will be together again permanently in August 
. He works in a big city abroad where he basically has no close friends, only colleagues. One of my old female friends also lives in the same city. I put them in touch and they met up for a coffee recently and got on well. I was really pleased for my DP because I thought it was nice that he had met a like-minded person at last- I knew they'd get on as they have a lot in common.
Anyway, tonight my DP went to an event also attended by my friend. I knew they were both going and messaged my friend asking her to give DP a hug from me. She did so. DP was pleased, as he has found it difficult only having 'professional' contact for so long. We are both pretty tactile people- I hug my friends and family all the time, and I can't imagine not having a hug for months.
When I told my mum about this, she was horrified. She said that I was 'throwing them together' and 'encouraging them' and lots of other things which really upset me, because the thought of anything going on between my female friend and my DP had never even entered my head. AIBU to think my mum is a loon? Or am I being naive here?
AIBU?
To ask my friend to give my fiancé a hug?
PollyCazaletWannabe · 09/06/2015 23:03
He's Isolated.
He's Lonely
Hasn't had sex for months? 
Hasn't had any form of physical contact.
You are not around.
You have put him in touch with a female friend of yours.
You are encouraging them to go out together.
You are even encouraging physical contact. (yes it's only hugs, but it's still Physical Contact)
He's alone.
He's Lonely
You are not around.
But, your friend IS around.
This is the thing OP.
They might only be friends now, but the more they go out together, the closer they will become, the closer they become, the more they will start relying on eachother, the more they will start to share close/private conversations, the more danger there is that they will become a bit too close.
As it is, you are pushing them into having an emotional affair at the least, with the potential to turn physical.
You are being very naive (I admire it in a way sometimes ignorance is bliss).
But sorry to say, I think your mother has a point.
May I suggest you read
www.amazon.co.uk/NOT-Just-Friends-Rebuilding-Recovering-ebook/dp/B00B0X1UPA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433967461&sr=1-1&keywords=not%20just%20friends&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21
OP, I think you ought to advise your DP not to go out in public ever again in case he sees another female and is forced to start shagging her. You'd only have yourself to blame if he did. 
PollyCazaletWannabe I have not read all the comments but have read your op and some recent comments.
I am afraid I think there is a risk you will end up encouraging your friend and your fiancée to form an emotional attachment, which might lead to something else.
The reality is that this will probably not happen, but why risk it?
In your shoes I would not encourage finance towards one specific person who you are suggesting is in some way 'in your place' at least in the hugging stakes.
When one boyfriend met a friend of mine I got it totally into my head he might fancy her (he didn't). I ended up going on about her so much he started to wonder if he should fancy her! We had a good chat, we were not miles apart, I shut up about it, and all ended well.
I'm sorry you won't like my post, probably, and may find it funny, so be it.
I don't want to be right.
Hope all is well.
Just checked back to this thread and I see that it's still all kinds of crazy in here 
Some very very insecure people projecting on this thread. Maybe I live in a parallel universe. I hug people all the time, and they me. I have male friends who are in relationships, message and say "really need a hug. Have had such a shit day" and no one would bat an eyelid. But we are all quite huggy people. Maybe that's it?
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I am finding the responses here very comical!
That's good Polly.
Obviously you have nothing to worry about!
Odd that you should go to the bother of starting a thread about something that supposedly doesn't worry you at all but what do I know.
Italian, You should not say that. You will be accused of being crazy
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