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

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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 once said ‘love you’ to a minor retired sporting celebrity of the club I support as he was walking off after shaking hands and a brief chat at a meet and greet. We’re both in our 60s! (I admire and like him greatly but I still redden at the memory).

Then I bumped into him again in the car park. He gave me the side eye…

I also regularly used to go the wrong way when giving one of those friend hugs greeting a freind’s husband and nearly snog him. Don’t know how it happened as I usually don’t have the same issue with other people. Neither of us fancied each other in the slightest but it was still cringe.

This is the hug…

Oh no 🤣

The only comfort I can give is hopefully anyone who saw it has forgotten it? ☺️

I accidently kissed my husband's friend's wife. She bent in for an air kiss and I misjudged the distance (I blame dyspraxia) and planted an actual kiss on her cheek. My hand went on her shoulder for balance too, so that I didn't lurch even more

You've brought the awkward memory right back, we are both British so naturally will never refer to it ever. I've always hoped she didn't think "So she thinks we're on actual kissing terms now?!" rather than "Oops, too close!"

I have no idea @EBearhug but there was a long thread pulled in my dress afterwards as he had manically tried to free us. 🙈

I accidentally kissed my friends DH on the lips once. I don’t remotely fancy him and have no idea what the fuck I was thinking.

It was totally my fault. So embarrassing.

I thought of another one, although it's sort of an opposite situation. As I said, I live in France, and have made many a mistake with la bise, to the point I shrug it off now (although my embarrassment did burn with the heat of a thousand suns for months after I kissed my boss's neck).

But my H, who is German (they tend to shake hands or give brief hugs rather than kisses), STILL - when a French person comes in for la bise - kisses them roundly on both cheeks, like "Mwah! Mwah!" The French people always look a bit taken aback, and I see them bracing themselves when they greet him the next time. The kids have all warned their friends 😂😂

You've just made me LOL + I'm supposed to be working! 😂

Oh god no 😆Mortifying!!!

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I am actually crying laughing at the thought of this 😂

Some of these are absolutely hilarious 😅

I have so many! Most recently, me and DH were meeting my best friends new partner (for the first time). When they arrived at the pub, we went in for hugs / cheek kisses / handshakes but it all got a bit awkward as we'd obviously never met the boyfriend before (so the familiarity dynamics were all off!).

I leant over to hug my friend but her bf stepped forward at the same time to shake DHs hand so his fingers ended up touching my boob 😂He jumped back and DH was just stood there holding his hand out to nobody. Then I randomly decided that because I had given my friend a hug and kiss that I couldn't just shake her bfs hand so I went to hug him too and he just kind of kept his arms in the air not touching me 😂

The whole situation must have been hilarious to any onlookers 😆

Are you Erika Kirk?

It genuinely doesn’t like something someone would think about much more than maybe being surprised and a slight laugh inside their own head.

I just said the same thing thing! The friend will be getting pregnant very soon….

Reminds me of my friend going in for the hug/kiss of a newly religious Jewish friend - he recoiled - we went 🤦‍♀️ for context we are all Jewish but he is now religious and we’re not (it was at a party of a mutual friend).
Some hugs can be really awkward though - I’m quite small and if a big man hugs me I feel a bit buried and squished!

That’s nothing compared to me, I went in for a handshake, colleague went for hug, somehow we hugged with my hand on their crotch 😱

This made me 😂 cry laughing - literally! I’m feeling pretty fed up atm and it cheered me right up.

I mistimed a cheek kiss with my friend’s partner’s friend and ended up lip to lip. I think he was as mortified as me 😬

i feel for you.
Shivas are awkward at the best of times ‘wish you long life’ and shuffle off meekly. I’ve been both the bereaved and shiva go-er and unless you know the mourner(s) well it can be a bit awks.

This literally made me.lol 😂😂😂😂
I can actually see it in my head 😂 😂 😂 😂

Oh, I know how you feel.

At my dad's funeral of all places, I saw an old female university friend of his and my mum. I've met this woman a few times in the past, but honestly, not since I was a pre-teen. So a good 20 years previously.
I knew all their old uni mates were coming, including this woman, and she's quite distinctively looking, so I straight away recognised her.
For some reason, I couldn't tell you why, I marched right up to her, said, "thank you so much for coming!" and immediately pulled her into a hug!
She gave a little surprised, "oh!" and sort of gingerly hugged me back. But as soon as we separated, I could see her expression was very much "what the heck was that about?!"
I did the awkward hug with only two other people at the funeral, both of whom initiated it themselves. One was the wife of one of dad's cousins, and the other was a different old friend of dads.

Utterly bizarre behaviour on my part. I'm not even entirely convinced she knew who I was... But I have to assume that she knew whose funeral she was attending, and had enough memory to remember that her uni mate had a daughter about my age... Even so, I've been embarrassed for almost 8 years about it!

"Fortunately", I can blame "attending a parents funeral"! No one is at their best then!

A few years ago DS was in hospital for ages, it was the middle of the night and I was just done with everything.

I went into the 24hr tesco to pick up a few things and get back to the hospital.

I saw a male friend coming towards and just walked over arms out and semi collapsed into their arms.

He then sort of tapped my back a few times and pushed me away saying I was squashing his eggs

It was a complete stranger

And then he became one of those strangers that you see everywhere, so I relive it multiple times a month.

I am literally crying with laughter reading this. Thank you!

I was just thinking about that very post! That whole thread was hilariously funny.

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