To think v few people haven't hugged their friends / families?

[roarfeckingroarr]

Apparently hugs are back from 17 May.

Aibu to think there are very very few people who have not hugged their friends / relatives for however long since the government said we last could?

I know I have. It's absurd that any government can tell us that we aren't allowed to hug our loved ones.

I hugged my friend when she was very distraught because her mum was dying. I would do it again.

Not a hugger.

My mum (my bubble) has put an arm round me a few times, as has my grandmother once.

My cousin did an air hug with me at the park last week.

I’ve carried my niece out of the ocean and wrapped her in a towel when my pregnant sister couldn’t at the beach last summer.

That’s it. Except for my son, that’s the sum total of my physical human contact for 15 months.

It’s been fucking bleak. Even for someone who doesn’t hug.

I haven’t hugged anyone. But not cos of covid but because I don’t want to hug people lol

@roarfeckingroarr

Apparently hugs are back from 17 May.

Aibu to think there are very very few people who have not hugged their friends / relatives for however long since the government said we last could?

I know I have. It's absurd that any government can tell us that we aren't allowed to hug our loved ones.

I haven't hugged anyone but my husband apart from a holiday in the summer when I hugged my friend's child.

I have vulnerable family members, pregnant friends and most of my friends are in frontline roles with an increased risk.
For me it's about keeping me and the people I love safe. I'm mature enough not to have a strop about the government telling us what to do.

I haven’t. I wanted to protect my friend and family.

I’m a frontline nurse who’s had a massive Covid exposure. I was so terrified of exposing my loved ones to Covid that for the first 6 months I slept in the spare room so my partner wasn’t exposed. I also haven’t seen my family in person, even outside as I was worried I would put them at risk!! Can’t wait to start hugging!!

Nope. Very elderly mum, why would I take a risk, however low.

No, I didn't even hug my gran on the day of my grandfather's funeral it was awful. Thankfully she'd formed a bubble with my aunt who also lives alone so she had someone for physical contact.

I haven't.

Once when my friend’s dog died. We are both vaccinated.

Not since. Am ambivalent about the return, I like to hug a few people and with many it’s just conventional.

I haven’t either 🤷‍♀️

Sat in the ILs garden under umbrellas with snow and rain (weather changed on the way there ). Didn't go in, didn't hug them.

I haven't.

I have only seen my parents a handful of times and haven't hugged them in over a year. A small price to pay for knowing I helped keep them safe!

I haven’t hugged any of my family since March 2020. My Nan has cancer and is having chemo and I cried at the announcement I may be able to hug her finally (we are both fully vaccinated as I’m an nhs worker).

I’ve hugged my mum as we are in a support bubble. I’ve also hugged people at work a couple of times but we work incredibly close together and it’s pretty much impossible to social distance in my job (work in operating theatres so have to be close together to do surgery/patient care/ transfers etc).

So yeah there are people who haven’t hugged their families.

No, I haven't hugged anyone. I've been careful to do the right thing but I'm not particularly a hugger anyway.

California here, and hugged my DS and DGSs Saturday for the first time since March 10, 2020. It was glorious! And very stressful underneath it all. DH, DS and I are all fully vaccinated and have waited the appropriate two weeks, so this was Hug Day.

Poor DIL. It was her birthday, but no hugs yet, as she's not had her 2nd dose.

I've not hugged my adult children ....they are mid 20s and live in the same town ..since Christmas Day

I have
Both wearing masks
I test 3 times a week with work

Common sense prevails

Like if everyone has had both vaccines then I don't see why they can't sit in the house out of the rain today rather than next week

I don't think I have hugged anyone apart from my partner or children in years. I don't really understand the longing to do it, I would feel weird pressing my body against a friend or family member, I just don't see the point.

I've hugged DH but that's it. I haven't been able to see my parents since December 2019 as they're in Scotland and I'm in London. I've not hugged the friends I've been able to see. My friend who lost her baby wasn't able to hug the 6 people who were allowed at the funeral.

There are plenty people who haven't been hugging!

I love cuddling my DC and DH. Perfectly happy never cuddling anyone else ever again though 😂

YABU. Some people hate hugging or are not that fussed about it, or haven't been able to see the people they'd hug. I only really hug my parents and they live hundreds of miles away, so popping round for a quick outdoor visit wasn't really an option!

It think YABU.

But, as is always the case on these threads, people, in general, mix with people like themselves.

So, back in the days when play areas in parks were closed a Poster A decided to use it anyway, and then sees another family there, Poster A then justifies to herself "Look, everyone is", without acknowledging that Posters C-Z are not there.
Same with hugging
Same with going inside each others houses, etc,etc,etc

Not hugged anyone outside my bubble other than when my Mum died last July 😔