To think kissing friends on lips is weird?

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I was talking to a friend today, and we spoke about how we greet people and friends. They said they often kiss friends on the lips, of whatever sex, and seemed to think this is normal. Not a full on snog mind, a peck. They seemed surprised when I said I find that very weird.

Am I the weird one here? I am not one for physical affection with anyone except my nearest and dearest so wonder if it's me that's the exception

Yes it is weird. Same goes for kissing kids full on the lips. Talk about inappropriate.

Its weird.

Weird.

My DH is the only one who gets a kiss on the lips from me.

Yeah weird. I have also known people to do it though.

Well to be fair, weird just means strange or different. We have just put a spin on the word to also have the connotation of bad or wrong. So, that it is weird or strange to you doesn't make it bad, it just means it's not what you are used to or can understand. And it's okay. It's the norm somewhere else and for them, not kissing on the lips as a form of greeting could be weird. I know how many people who think fake-pecking or kissing on the cheeks as a form of greeting is weird too.

Yes it’s weird I have a close friend who awkwardly, accidentally kissed me on the lips once
It was weird but we did laugh about it.

Me kids kiss me on the lips, nothing weird about that! I think they'd find it odder if I pushed when away like lepers, but no to kissing friends on lips, yuk

My kids not me

Depends what culture you're from

Ugh I hate it. My friend once kissed my DP on the lips totally by accident and was mortified. She said sorry a million times. It was hilarious. We were laughing about it in the company of another friend who got really confrontational about why it was a problem, a peck on the lips is totally normal, she would kiss me on the lips. I told her in the 25 years I'd known her she had never kissed me on the lips and that wasn't going to change.

Me and my friends - Male and female - all vary from a solid hug to an air kiss to a peck on the cheek and sometimes a kiss on the lips. It's not a lingering spit swapping tongue twister but it's pleasant enough and not at all awkward. I'm 55 now and perhaps it just becomes less of a conscious thing with age?.... or I just enjoy an "almost snog" lol

not dc [when they were young] or relatives /friends nope, no way

Wtf - I have no issues kissing anyone on the lips? Male or female friends. Husband does it too!! Don't see an issue at all

All of my family kiss everyone on the lips.

Odd to me. Not to others it seams. Depends on your upbringing I guess. Too sexual for my liking, I dunno. Not wrong, just unusual I think.

It's one of those things that seems very odd if you don't do it but if you do its something you've done since childhood so is very normal. Some cultures are a lot more open about it than others too.
I've family from across the world and some of them kiss me on the lips when we meet, I kiss my kids on the lips but I don't with friends or my own parents/siblings.
It's not that long ago that the English were scadalised by any physical contact other than a handshake and in some places men and women don't even shake hands if they're not related. Different things suit different people.

It's a cultural thing. British people don't do it. Personally, I find it rather creepy when men (try and) do it. Never had a woman do it.

Nope and if any of my friends tried to 'peck' me, I'm poking them in the eye. I only kiss DD on the lips and thats the lightest, barely touching peck.

I really wouldn't like it. I think it is cultural though, it isn't usually done, which is why it seems weird to some.

A family of lip kissers here! Not with friends, although I wouldn’t be distressed if it happened. My best friend is male, I’ve know him since age 4 and we peck in the lips when we greet and say goodbye. My nephew turned 15 this week and he greeted everyone in the restaurant with a lip peck. I’m sure some diners were aghast!! I guess it’s how you’re brought up!

YANBU

All family that were there for his birthday meal I should point out - not EVERYONE in the restaurant. That would be weird....

I don't kiss anyone on the lips apart from DH. My preferred form of physical greeting for most people would be a friendly wave from a safe distance, but I do go along with hugs/air kisses when required.

There have been rare occasions when people I dislike have gone for a hug/kiss greeting and I've responded by going rigid/mild shrieking about how I don't like to be touched, but I reserve that for when I really would prefer that people think I'm deeply weird and uptight than try to touch me again.

Tbh I thought that even the Continental convention was kisses on the cheek, not the lips, but there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy.

Are you lip kissers from à British back ground?

Anglo French here and apart from when my kids were under 2 I don't think I've ever been lip kissed by anyone who wasn't a sexual partner.