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 was once doing karaoke with a male colleague (both had had a few) and during an instrumental break in the song he went to kiss my cheek as I went to lick his (many MANY wines).
He ended up kissing my tongue.
We both found it hilarious, but nobody else saw it happen!

I was attending a funeral for my friends mum. The funeral director knew my other friend who I went to the funeral with, but I didn’t know him. I had flowers in my hand. He went to hug my friend (they knew each other so all was fine), he went to take my flowers from me and I assumed he was hugging me too… he was not! It was so awkward. This was 12 years ago… I haven’t forgotten it!

Sorry but this type of cringe outlives everything. Even death doesn’t diminish it. It WILL haunt your thoughts at 3 am when you can’t sleep and I can’t explain why or what it is about clashing hugs/greetings that makes this so, but that’s the way it is so accept it 😂 (once planted an unexpected- to both of us- smacker on distant aunt’s cheek, she sort of gasped and looked at me in ‘you fecking weirdo’ horror which I can still see in my mind’s eye even though she’s been dead years and never saw her again).

Flo and Joan encapsulated these worries perfectly

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This made me laugh a lot.

Note to self: no wool dresses in the office from now on.

I’m sorry to tell you that I still think about the time my husband introduced me to his brother in law and I went to hug him but he’d already gone to shake my hand and I end up sort of hugging his arm? Like a sloth wrapped round a tree. And then he went to pat my shoulder as I turned away so then he was kind of hugging me from behind, “we’re flying Jack!” style. It was appalling.

that was seven years ago. Perhaps we should start a support group

I'm not really a hugger but I have had people go to hug me but I go in for a handshake, it gets all confusing and my hands end up all over the place before we finally settle on a very brief awkward hug

Shortly after I met DH, we were invited to a birthday party in the house of his closest (male) friend, who I had met briefly a couple of times. Most of the people at the party knew one another through work. I was very much the outsider. As we breezed in, I strode across the floor and kissed the friend confidently on both cheeks. Except it wasn't the friend. It was the friend's brother. More than twenty years later, the brother still says 'I travelled all the way from Cornwall and this woman I had never met before came straight up to me and kissed me.' The friend still says 'It was my birthday and she ignored me.' But for having lived in a kissing-intense southern European country, I would still be embarrassed now.

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It was VERY conspicuous. And happened in a pin-drop silent room where most people’s attention was fixed on the family in their chairs because prayers had just ended. I’m genuinely still so horrified that the arches of my feet are tingling as I picture it while writing this😂