To think it's not unreasonable

[PinkGlitter123]

To stop hugging your male friend goodbye once you have a partner? Just dont feel its appropriate but he called me out on it earlier and asked me if he had done something wrong

Assuming you're both fully clothed, its completely normal.
How bizarre.

I've been with a particular group of friends for over 30 years, I always hug the guys, and DH hugs the girls and then all the guys seem to have perfected the 'see you mate' awkward hand shake. Then I'll go back for a second hug because we can Whilst there was a bit of a dalliance with one of them pre DH who I've been married to for 25 years there is absolutely nothing sexual in it and it would be seriously weird if we didn't do it now.

Hug and kiss (cheek) my male friends regardless of who else is there. My DH doesn’t mind (he’s too busy greeting / saying goodbye to the ladies in a similar fashion) and their wives don’t mind. I even dated one of them a lifetime ago!

Haha this is hilarious! Just hug your mates 😂

I wouldn't be comfortable with my wife hugging men goodbye. It's inappropriate.

@Nobodys why?

Sounds like insecurity to me, Nobodys

@NobodysBlackerThanMe are you Mike Pence?

Say what?! A hug is inappropriate now?

You understand there’s different kinds of love and affection right?

A hug and a kiss on the cheek (a kiss on each cheek if we’re bwing fancy!) is perfectly normal behaviour between friends of opposite sexes, or same sexes if you’re in a same sex relationship.

This is all rather juvenile.....

I hug my male friends. Why is weird about that. My DH has also been known to hug our male friends! He hugs female friends too. And gives them a kiss on the cheek sometimes.

And red flagish in Nobodys case

If the hug doesn't involve penetration I think it's ok.

Some men might misinterpret the physical aspect of hugging. Smelling the perfume, the hair, feeling breasts pressed against their chest. It's just not cricket.

It's nice to hug a mate. It would be game over from me if I was with someone who had an issue with this, it would show a severe lack of boundaries on their part.

NobodysBlackerThanMe Don't be ridiculous. We are talking hugging friends not random men while out and giving flirtatious signals. I don't think i have ever pressed my breasts into a male friend i have hugged and if they were overcome by my delicious, expensive perfume i would expect them to tell me i smelled nice!

Well that’s us told, any woman who dares to waft her breasts, her perfume, her hair, saints preserve us, anywhere near a man deserves everything she gets...

Some men might misinterpret the physical aspect of hugging. Smelling the perfume, the hair, feeling breasts pressed against their chest. It's just not cricket.

Well as all my friends are nice normal men not sexual predators then I’ll carry on.

I must hug wrong because I don’t press my breasts against anyone. It’s usually more shoulder-shoulder than full body against each other

Of course I don't see it as a sexual act. But it is intimate

How is the fact that some men might misinterpret something innocent my problem as a woman? Luckily as a PP said I don't have friends who are sexual predators and so they don't think like that.

@PinkGlitter in that case if it is not sexual how is it any different from hugging a member of your family?

I hug and double kiss my best friend when I say hello and goodbye. He’s a man. I’m a woman.

I also have properly hugged him and he has hugged me, in a totally non-sexual way.

Anyone who had a problem with that, like a man I was seeing, I would dump if they had a problem with it.

Good friends, really really good ones who get you and would bury a body for you, are irreplaceable and should be cherished.

My partner did find it uncomfortable when friend said he missed my hugs.

Partner of how long?

Run like the wind.