How would you take this?

[Silhouetta]

If your dp (who clearly adored you) and was a bit of a cheeky chappy kissed another woman on the hand in greeting her? She’s attractive and 15 years younger than him, this is first time they had met

Why would he do that?

Is that his usual form of greeting people?

If not it’s very cringe. Someone did it to me a couple of months ago and it was awkward as arse.

I’d think it was a bit creepy.

This is my DP!

I would probably take it as the joke it was meant

He was tipsy, they shook hands (it was a pub type situation) and then he kissed her hand saying the hand shaking was too formal. He would normally check kiss to greet but couldn’t lean over

I find all the cheek kissing in England weird enough...hand kissing...cringe...

You’re the same OP with the tipsy flirting post - having a case of beer fear OP?!

The only thing I wouldn't like about that scenario is the fact that men who do the hand-kissing thing are usually dicks.

So he would normally check kiss, couldn’t reach, si hand kissed?

Fine. I wouldn’t think twice. I don’t like hand kissing but I wouldn’t be thinking anything untoward.

Isn’t cheek kissing a bit much when meeting someone for the first time though? Subsequent meetings I get, but i’d still find it a bit over-familiar for the first ever hello.

I like a cheek kiss, I always give them and get them when meeting people. hand kisses I'm not so fond of as I don't like stuff on my hands

I think it depends on how old he is. Pretty common for men I know over sixty to still hand kiss. Don't know anyone younger than that who does it though, younger men all cheek kiss.

Depends on how he behaved after that

If mine did it I'd laugh and tell him what a silly sod he is.

I would find it weird and would tell him (in private) that I didn't like it.

I wouldn't dwell in it too much though.

No different to a mock bow. Old fashioned courtesies I imagine he was mimicking as a joke. No big deal.

Weird. He should have "punched it in" instead.
I used to hand kiss men as a joke (usually when tipsy!)

I would be

What do you mean “punched it in”?