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

[FredSoftly]

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?

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I can't wait to hug my Mum, my in laws and my friends. But no one else. And the business handshake is so over.

I don't hug or kiss! bleurgh. I can't stand people who come into my personal space.

It's one of the many, many perks of working in a male environment. They don't touch me.

There are only a handful of VERY close friends who I'd ever hug. If my in-laws had started that nonsense, I would have offered them a handshake (works quite well to get people out of your face!)

Those of you who are members of the huggerati, do you ever sense your enthusiasm is not reciprocated?

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@FredSoftly

Those of you who are members of the huggerati, do you ever sense your enthusiasm is not reciprocated?

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I'd hope someone stepping backward and offering you their hand to shake is making clear enough!

I don't hug and kiss enough people that it makes a difference really - I have carried on with the people I always did. I don't find it common that people do it to me unexpectedly though I don't mind it when it happens.

That being said I think many people are suffering from lack of human contact. I fairly regularly am in contact with a number of people who are indigent and/or suffer from mental health conditions, and many of them are severely suffering from lack of social and physical human contact - these were things that many already struggled around but it is even worse now.

Most English speaking countries are fairly hands off in terms of social contact, I am hoping that covid doesn't increase that tendency permanently as I don't think it's good for health overall, and that includes things like immune health.

I hate hugs except for with a very limited list. I don't like casual touch either (e.g. hand on arm etc.). Covid has been a ballache, but for my dislike of touch it's been fab! I don't need to flinch away or ask people not to touch me, it's not allowed!

Happy to hug family and close friends again, and absolutely delighted I have an excuse to avoid hugging / air kissing people I don't know (and often don't like) before meetings. I work in a bit of a wanky industry and I cannot stand all the fake kissing (which seems to be the norm) before meetings. So good riddance to it all (and hopefully people can stay at least 2m away from me too )

I wouldn't hug random people! Generally I wait until someone hugs me and then I go for it. If you never hug me, I won't be going in for one

I was wondering if handshakes and office buffets would be reinstated at work. I hope not. When you think about it, in a roomful of 10 people with everyone shaking hands and one of them not washing their hands...that's just a load of specs of shit everywhere

I wouldn't hug random people!

I mean, if the guy is REALLY hot, I could make an effort, but apart from that 😂

Me too, I enjoy the personal space.
There are a few precautions I'll carry over.

I can take or leave hugging with friends (as opposed to DP/daughter/close family). I've done it happily enough in the past as most people I know seem to do it but equally happy to leave off.

I'm not uncomfortable with it as such but never really understood the need some people have to hug everyone and I don't like doing it with casual acquaintances or very new friends. I have one friend who is very touchy feely and kept going on about how she was desperate to break lockdown just to get hugs from friends. Which struck me as absolutely bizarre tbh.

I guess it just shows how different attitudes are to physical contact.

Never did it anyway.

Yup. I'm not a hugger. Polite distance or a manly arm pat is fine by me.

I won't be shaking hands with anyone ever again. Especially after a thread on here a little while ago where the amount of posters who thought it unnecessary and admitted to not washing their hands after going to the toilet in their own home. Truly grim.
I'll hug friends and family though, looking forward to that.

I’ve never been one to hug all & sundry but I do miss hugging my friends.

A colleague had some bad news the other day & in “normal” times I would have given her a hug but couldn’t.

I do miss hugging select people.

Sorry, not me!

I can't wait to hug my parents, kiss my friends, kiss their husbands, see the men shake hands (and do that drunken sort of hug that men do after a few pints!) 😁

Roll on the days wherevso social distancing can just do one.

Shortly before Lockdown 1 I finished therapy...for social anxiety!

I hate all hugs apart from those within close family and a couple of friends. Even touching me on the arm freaks me out.

As for social occasions I might still go and hide

I loath "mwah mwah" cheek kisses.

There's always some bugger who goes in for a third one and makes it even more awkward.

I don’t hug and kiss anyway, and wont be starting

DC goes to an indie school. Social kissing has always been de rigeur with some of the mums. I'm not expecting it to start again any time soon. What a relief!

I've never been an air kissy huggy type person anyway so won't bother me or affect me lol

Loathe*, obvs.