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Kissing your mum on the lips??

38 replies

Colalola · 14/06/2025 01:11

Is it me or is this f**king weird?? Saw my neighbour earlier, she’s mid thirties…kissing her mother on the lips. Cheek or a hug goodbye would do wouldn't it ? 😂

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Wolfpa · 14/06/2025 08:55

Was there tongue involved? If there was it was weird. If not it is no different to a kiss on the cheek.

my preference is no contact at all so really I think it all to be a little strange.

oblada · 14/06/2025 08:56

Girasoli · 14/06/2025 08:41

I used to lip kiss the DC when they were toddlers (and had no aim), now they get cheek and forehead kisses.

I find cheek kissing people in the UK a bit stressful...in Italy it's always two, but in the UK some people do one and some people do two and I always panic when I don't know what they are planning on 😁

In some parts of France it's 4🤣🤣🤣

As for the lip kissing, different ways for different folks. Doesn't bother me. My family doesn't do it but i know many do. Went on a school trip in Germany and some of my friends ended up with families who did that (lip kissing) and would lip kiss them as well. We were 10yrs old. It was the subject of many conversations.

My close family (parents etc) barely touches/hugs which I don't find very healthy (it also goes with some emotional distance as it were) and for years I used to be that person needing a lot of personal space/not sharing much. Although I have always been physically close to my children. That always felt right.
I'm almost 40 and the last few years i have definitely changed and I'm a lot more able to hug/kiss close friends and generally be emotionally close to friends.

My 13 years old daughter does lip kiss me. I think she's the only one of my 4 children. She's the oldest. It doesn't bother me. She's my kid. Anything is fine.

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 14/06/2025 08:56

I always found it really bleurgh, but actually my toddler wants to do everything we do, which included kissing us on the lips. He usually misses and gets my chin, but it's super cute.

ThreePointOneFourOneFiveNine · 14/06/2025 08:58

I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it , but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Just one of those things where people are different.

LettingyougoMovingOn · 14/06/2025 09:03

I find that absolutely disgusting (i appreciate I'm wrong not to be open minded)
The thought of kissing my dmum on the lips is bleugh

Flashahah · 14/06/2025 09:08

I have a FB friend who is constantly posting photos of her and her daughter lip kissing.

Not sure why.

its not for me.

MoistVonL · 14/06/2025 09:20

As a child my parents always kissed me on the lips when we said good night or good bye. I never thought about it, it’s just a peck. Nothing even faintly romantic about it.

zingally · 14/06/2025 11:06

My mum still kisses me on the lips. I don't especially love it, but she seems to, so I just go along with it. It's no big deal if it makes her happy.

Lovelynames123 · 15/06/2025 19:11

I don't lip kiss my family but I do my dds, 13 & 11, if that's where they head when they kiss me. 11 yo most of the time, 13 yo only sometimes. But we are a cheek kissing family, close family and wider. It's nice I think to show affection, and different strokes for different folks, obviously

Idontknowhatnametochoose · 15/06/2025 19:16

I never did. My mum kissed me on my head as a child but that's it. Hugs as adults. A school friend kissed her mum on the lips to say goodbye when she left for school and it used to make me feel a bit icky.

AmIthatSpringy · 15/06/2025 19:17

My DSister does this with her kids and it makes me cringe

Berryslacks · 15/06/2025 19:22

I like hugs and perhaps a kiss on the cheek but I have to agree with PP lip kissing is for partners only. I find it repulsive when adults kiss children on the lips (that’s my hang up obviously). One of the worst things I saw was an elderly neighbour who had just been recently bereaved (her husband had died). I was sitting with her when some of her friends came to visit her to offer condolences. Neighbour went to greet them at the door. One of her male friends just planted this enormous smacker on her lips.The look of shock on that poor woman’s face.

Sara379 · 15/06/2025 19:28

I love hugs and kisses on the cheek - but kissing non romantically on the lips is just weird to me. I mean it's one thing with a 3 year old but my ex used to kiss his dad on the lips and I thought it was weird as fuck - and i didn't think the problem was mine.

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