Help!!! Please help me feel better about this awkward hug!!!!!!

[No1Some1]

I was just introduced to a friends husband, and he went in for a hug, but with that sort of kiss/not kiss on each cheek. (If that makes any sense). This is absolutely not how I hug, so the whole thing threw me off and I ended up somehow in the kerfuffle, placing my hand on the back of his head mid hug. I am absolutely mortified!!!! I don’t know how it even happened, but it was just super weird and uncomfortable and I wanted the ground to swallow me up. Help me feel better about this. I’m currently planning to never set foot out my front door again!!!!!

I went in for a hug and a kiss with a friend I don't see often, we got the wrong angle and both recalculated - unfortunately with a worse angle and she damn near broke my cheekbone, as we smashed our faces together. She didn't say anything, we were going to a gig and it's all I could think about.

Oh Christ. This thread has just dredged up the memory of when I went to give my BIL a hug and air kiss and we somehow ended kissing each other on the lips. I'm surprised my subconscious doesn't remind me of that on a daily basis.

After a serious business meeting/negotiation where I was trying to be very professional with the man from the supplier company, we went to do the hug/handshake thing rather awkwardly in the car park as I was leaving.

unfortunately a thread from my wool dress caught in his fly and what followed seemed like an hour’s operation to separate us,

We were both very very embarrassed especially as my colleague was sitting in the car waiting for me and was peering out at the shenanigans. We never spoke of the incident again although everyone in my office would make comments each time we spoke on the phone. He came to my office once or twice afterwards but I made sure we said goodbye with a handshake across the desk.

Don’t worry, I kissed my SIL’s boyfriend on the neck when we had to since obligatory kiss / hug goodbye. He moved his stupid head and I nearly died. Now I only ever hug

Love these, just when I think I’ve cracked it, someone bends the wrong way and we head butt, I need lessons

'The deceased son' does it. On first reading, I had a mental image of you kissing a cadaver.

@No1Some1 my husbands friends do this. No mallace intended i’d park it.

I never hugged or kissed friends growing up so when I went to uni it was a complete surprise to me. My friend's DP gave me a sedate kiss on the cheek goodbye, I did the same back with a massive "MWOAH" sound, like you would if you were kissing a toddler. He looked shocked, I was mortified.

I knew I needed my eyes tested when I kissed my son in law in the neck instead of the cheek.

unfortunately a thread from my wool dress caught in his fly

But... how did that happen, @wellstopdoingitthen ?

I'm the same, I remember as a child how uncomfortable it used to make me feel. I hate all this air kissing shite too, I really do.

Sorry but this made me cry laughing. He sounds like the plumber that came to my dm house years ago and I now have a picture in my head of her kissing him 😳🤣🤣

The worst I’ve done is clumsily swinging arms when walking with a colleague and accidentally holding his hand.

I temped in a small office for a few weeks, about 15 years ago. On my final day as I was leaving and saying goodbye to a colleague, I leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek. I'd barely spoken to the man. Think I was just flustered remembering everything and packing up. It was only when I got out of the door that I thought "Oh God!" and remembered his mildly surprised reaction. Fortunately I have never seen him again 🙈

Hahaha 😂

I was meeting the family of a new boyfriend, and was kissing them on the cheek to say hello. Miscalculated the angle with his brother and we smashed cheeks together, leaving us both rubbing our faces in pain. We laughed but I'm still cringing about it months later.

God no. Take it from me. I see dead bodies all the time and not an image I'd like stuck in my head

I remember a thread on here years ago that was started by a woman who had gone to shake her boss’s hand and ended up cupping his balls.

That’s made me LOL 😂

Hugged a friend of my husband a few weeks ago as he was leaving and our ears sort of suctioned together. It was awful. We both gallantly pretended nothing had happened but it so had. The feeling still haunts me now!

I only do weird and awkward hugs tbh 😂

When I was learning to drive I missed the gear stick and placed my hand AND TRIED TO WIGGLE my instructor's thigh.

This!

Stop being so dramatic OP.

See now that’s embarrassing OP 😁

Did anyone else immediately think of Erika Kirk’s controversial hug with JD Vance? It set the rumour mills in overdrive, OP, so I think you have good reasons to be concerned ☺️.