Couples holding hands is really cheesy beyond the teenage years

[HamptonLucy]

I've been watching several episodes of Escape to the Country (please don't judge me too harshly). Almost all the couples clutch each others hands on the sofa and cling on to one another for dear life when they're trundling around the countryside with lovely Alistair, Nicki Chapman or Jules.

Do you think it's a bit cheesy? The Obamas, the Macrons, Harry & Meghan, the Clooneys - all serial offenders.

YABU DH and i love holding hands

I agree OP it's pathetic! Nothing but attention seeking

"Look everybody! We're together don't ya know?! If I let go, she may run off towards the handsome trolley collector "

you’ve bought yourself separate sofas so you don’t have to sit next to each other?

No. We thought two sofas would be a good idea so that the dog DC and guests didn't have to sit on the floor!

holding hands when someone is dying is not what she's talking about. That's a very different situation. Holding hands with someone who is visually impaired is also not what she's talking about

Thank you.

@InfiniteSheldon Sssorry WHAT? You hold hands with your DAD!?! What the.... That's genuinely disturbing and actualky, I think, illegal??

But the op would not know that my DP was blind she would be too busy judging us for holding hands at our age

My DH and I are in our late 50s, we still hold hands.
It’s affection. Sorry you don’t have have any love or affection in your life op.
I don’t need your approval.

Old couples holding hands in public makes me a little weepy it’s so lovely

Sorryyoudon’t have have any love or affection in your life op

Looking at DH (on separate sofa), DD (on her phone), DDog (on my sofa) - think I'm ok for love and affection, thanks. You on the other hand seem a bit touchy despite the hand holding.

I never understood this. You see a pair of 16 olds holding hands and it's all 'aaaaaaaw, young love!' and a couple of octogenarians are adorable because they've gone the distance and 'aaaaaw, look they're still in love!'

So why is it icky and weird in between?!

And yeah, I'm 33 and shamelessly hold hands with my 40 year old husband when the kids let us

We are in our 60s and still hold hands. It is nice. We have always held hands, why should we stop?
Sometimes I hold DH's arm. But that is because sometimes I struggle to walk. I fall over because I am ill. If I fall over I break something. This is tedious and very painful.
I really don't need people judging me. What harm is it to anyone else?

My grandparents are nearly ninety and still hold hands. My granddad is very protected of my grandmother. I think it's beautiful.

I never want to stop holding hands with my DH. And my parents still hold hands wherever they go I don't really care what anyone thinks of us, if they think we're silly that's their problem not ours.

I'm no fan of full on face-eating kissing in public or groping, but hand holding is lovely.

DH and I hold hands, I’m 58 and he is 68. We go to sleep holding hands, YABU.

DH and I hold hands . We are in our sixties so have been doing so for nearly 40 years. We don’t do it in company though. If we are out walking and meet someone we know we will stop with the handholding as neither of us likes PDAs.

SerenDippitty You should apply for Escape to the Country, you would be perfect

Ok. Finished Ozark. Off to bed now. Night all

This thread makes me sad.

But not the parts where people describe themselves or their family still holding hands.

I'm refraining from writing anything else on this matter because I've got several bees already waiting to climb out of my bonnet.

Grainedmonkey we are happy city dwellers thank you,

YANBU. Its a bit twee and makes it harder to walk anywhere. Fine in private, but going about in public always strikes me as a bit of a demonstration.

I'm long term single and would love to have someone to hold hands with and cuddle up.

Nice to hear about all the hand holders. Married 32 years and no hand holding here. It would be nice, I think.

I hold my DH's hand - we are very old & he is some 8 years older than me & somewhat frailer & I dread the day when I don't have his hand to hold.

YABVVVVVVVVU, OP.

We've been married 32 years and it would seem so strange to not hold hands when we're out, it's just natural and normal to us.