Anyone else not planning on resuming hugging and kissing every bugger once we're allowed

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My in-laws are lovely but very huggy. I have some friends who like to kiss both cheeks in the way that the French do so effortlessly but we Brits tend to bungle.

I've enjoyed not having to hug and bash noses since last March and don't want to resume.

Anyone else?

I think a lot of us will be doing the dance for a while tbh OP. It'll pass though.

I hate hugging or kissing anyone except my DH and DC. I have loved having people distance themselves from me.

I will be straight back to hugging people. Love a hug

I don't hug or kiss (apart from husband and daughter). I won't resume kissing or hugging anyone post-lockdown because I find physical contact with people so excruciating, I end up telling friends and family that I don't like it and won't be doing it. I'm not rude about it, but I'm not putting their need for social niceties / etiquette over my own comfort.

There was one school mum who used to hug and air kiss any available mum at the school gate EVERY SINGLE DAY. I definitely don’t miss that and hope it doesn’t rekindle itself when we can again.

TBH, I don't hug and kiss people outside my family anyway, and I will be hugging them as soon as I can.

As a rule, I don't like people hugging me. I let my Italian friend get away with it because I don't get to see her often, but everyone else can continue to back off. Even shaking hands is something that I would prefer to avoid if possible.

I hope people don’t go back to hugging and kissing. It’s so tedious and many people don’t want to do it.

I love hugging people who I'm close to and am looking forward to it again, and kissing both cheeks.

I will be hugging people I know and love but avoiding any hugs from strangers and I will not be offering my hand for a shake if I can possibly avoid it.

Yeah I'm not keen on it. I haven't missed it at all!

I look forward to returning to social norms, to hugging those we are close to, to shaking hands and greeting people properly. Touch is so important.

I'm not very tactile, so no. It will be nice to see them without worrying about staying a metre apart, though. Memories of eating with my family on an outdoor meet up last year, each perched on the very corner of a picnic table.

I'm not a very huggy person anyway.

The only time I tend to hug people is when they have had a bereavement.

I'm not gonna lie. I've lost a dear friend this year and some colleagues have lost family and I've hugged them all.

I just hope in future it's not whilst wearing a mask!

Ugh I'm with you op, I hate enforced affection. I'll hug my family when I feel like it, but as a general rule find all the huggy kissy stuff fake and kinda gross (why do they want to put their saliva all over me!)
I also don't like the casual sexism that allows DH to get away with handshakes but I am expected to hug all and sundry.

I'd be happy never to hug anyone not immediate family ever again.

I feel like there are loads of us secret hug-haters.

Perhaps we could wear badges so that don't end up hugging each other and - accidentally - doing a hug we could have avoided?

I can't wait to give my mum and dad the biggest hug when I can see them! Im quite a huggy person though so I've really missed it, however I will still be keeping my distance from friends etc just because they will have seen more people than my parents and I'd rather not risk it.

I have a friend who gives the best squidgy hugs in the world. I’ve been looking forward to hugging her for months.

There's a woman at work who LOVES to touch people. I've told her to to touch me and she always 'forgot' performatively every time. Now she doesn't. She'd better not start up again

Me.
I hope shaking hands has gone too.

I love chatting. But not sharing germs 🤮.

I hate it, it’s horrible and awkward and always feels clumsy and forced. And sweaty handshakes, ugh. I have no wish to touch people just because it’s polite.

I'm not normally a hugger, but I really really miss physical contact. I touched my mum at Christmas, but apart from that (oh, and a smear test last week) I haven't had physical contact with another human being in over a year, so I want hugs.

You can count me in....as in, not keen on huggy folks. I shan't be resuming the hugs, I've loved folk keeping their distance...I never even liked shaking hands. I shall be keeping my mask and my gloves on for a long time yet!

I blooming won’t be. It’s been lovely all of us healthy and no colds or flu

I dislike hugging and air kissing. However I do miss the handshake - you can tell so much about someone from that act alone.